apl. Prof. Dr. Cornelis de Vos

Current affiliations

  • Centre for Eastern Mediterranean History and Culture (GKM)

Curriculum Vitae (CV)

  • Hermeneutics in the New Testament and of the New Testament
  • New Testament and ethics
  • Verhältnis von Normativität und Identität in der Antike
  • Ancient Judaism and its Writings
  • Reception history of the Bible
  • "Land of Israel" in the Bible and early Jewish writings

Academic Education

2010“Habilitation” for the subject Hellenistic Judaism and New Testament, Faculty of Protestant Theology, University of Münster
2003 - 2009Post-doc project Holy Land and the Presence of God: Shifts in and Functions of Old Testament Concepts of the Land in Early Jewish and New Testament Writings
2002PhD (Old Testament) at the University of Groningen
1997 - 1998Study at the École Biblique et Archéologique Française in Jerusalem (three months)
1994 - 1997Study of Middle Egyptian and Aramaic at the University of Groningen
1993 - 1994Study of Modern Hebrew and Biblical Archaeology at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem
1984 - 1993Study of Theology, Kampen (NL) and Hamburg; minor subjects: Egyptology, Classical Arabic, Medieval Philosophy
1978 - 1984Secondary school Revius Lyceum in Doorn, NL
1983Gewinner der Mathematik-Olympiade des Revius Lyceums (s.u.) (> 1500 Schüler*innen)

Work Experience

10/2023 - 03/2025Vertretungsprofessor für Neues Testament am Institut für Evangelische Theologie und Religionspädagogik, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg
10/2022 - 03/2023Vertretungsprofessor für Neues Testament und Antikes Judentum und Vertretungsdirektor des Institutum Judaicum Delitzschianum, Universität Münster
10/2020 - 09/2022Lehrauftrag Neues Testament (4 Stunden) am Institut für Evangelische Theologie, Universität Osnabrück
10/2019 - 09/2020Acting Professor of Old Testament at the Faculty of Protestant Theology - University of Muenster
01/2018 - 12/2019Von Harling scholarship 2018 and 2019 for finalising an edition with German translation of Josephus's, Contra Apionem
10/2019Appointment as Adjunct Professor of New Testament and Ancient Judaism
01/2019Visiting Professor, Theological Faculty, Turku, Finland financed by the Abraham Polin scholarship
10/2017 - 09/2018Interim professor of New Testament at the Protestant Theological Faculty, University of Muenster
11/2012 - 09/2017Project leader (together with Prof. Dr. Hermut Löhr) at the Cluster of Excellence "Religion and Politics", University of Münster
08/2016 - 04/2017Acting professor of Old Testament and Ancient Judaism at the Institute for Protestant Theology, University of Osnabrück
10/2015 - 07/2016Acting Professor of Theology and History of the Literature of the New Testament at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel
10/2014 - 07/2015Acting Professor of New Testament and Hellenistic Judaism at the Institutum Judaicum Delitzschianum, University of Münster
2009 - 2012Research Assistant at the Cluster of Excellence "Religion and Politics", University of Münster
2003 - 2009Assistant Lecturer ("Wissenschaftlicher Assistent") of New Testament and Judaism at the Institutum Judaicum Delitzschianum, University of Münster
2001 - 2004Translator for the New Bible Translation of the Dutch Bible Society and the Catholic Bible Society
1999 - 2003Teacher of Religious Education and Philosophy; head of the Religious Education department; supervisor of trainee teachers at the Heerenlanden College in Leerdam, NL
1994 - 1998Researcher for the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) at the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies, University of Groningen, NL

Functions and Memberships

since 11/2021Erster Vorsitzender, Vorstand, Franz-Delitzsch-Gesellschaft e.V. zur Förderung des Institutum Judaicum Delitzschianum: - Christlich-jüdische Beziehungen in Geschichte und Gegenwart; - Wissenschaftliche Erforschung und Vermittlung von Geschichte, Literatur, Theologie und Philosophie des Judentums
since 2015Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal for the Study of Judaism
since 2011Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft für Theologie
since 2011The International Organization for Septuagint and Cognate Studies
since 2005European Association of Biblical Studies
since 2004Centrum für Geschichte und Kultur des östlichen Mittelmeerraums, University of Münster
since 2004Society of Biblical Literature
since 1990Deutscher Palästina-Verein
2016 - 2022co-chair, section "Joshua-Judges", Society of Biblical Literature
2012 - 2016Member of the steering committee of the section "Joshua-Judges" - Society of Biblical Literature
2012 - 2015Co-editor of the Journal for the Study of Judaism
2011 - 2015Deutsche religionsgeschichtliche Studiengesellschaft - Member of the board

Publications

de Vos, J. Cornelis (2024)
In: Ameling, Walter (eds.), Der historische und kulturelle Kontext der Septuaginta / The Historical and Cultural Context of the Septuagint. Gütersloh: Gütersloher Verlagshaus.
Type of Publication: Research article (book contribution)
de Vos, J. Cornelis (2024)
In: Cordoni, Constanze (eds.), Religious Homelands: Collected Essays. Berlin: De Gruyter.
Type of Publication: Research article (book contribution)
de Vos, J Cornelis (2023)
In: Birdsong, Shelley L.; de Vos J. Cornelis; Kim, Hyun Chul Paul (eds.), Reading Gender in Judges. An Intertextual Approach. Atlanta: SBL Press.
Type of Publication: Research article (book contribution)
Birdsong, Shelley L.; de Vos J. Cornelis; Kim, Hyun Chul Paul (eds.) (2023)
Atlanta: SBL Press.
Type of Publication: Book (edited collection)
Birdsong, Shelley L.; de Vos, J. Cornelis; Kim, Hyun Chul Paul (2023)
In: Birdsong, Shelley L.; de Vos J. Cornelis; Kim, Hyun Chul Paul (eds.), Reading Gender in Judges. An Intertextual Approach. Atlanta: SBL Press.
Type of Publication: Research article (book contribution)
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Projects

Duration: 23/03/2015 - 25/03/2015
Funded by: Armin Schmitt Foundation, DFG - International Scientific Events
Type of project: Scientific Event
Duration: 01/01/2015 - 31/12/2016
Type of project: Own resources project
Duration: 01/11/2012 - 31/12/2018 | 1st Funding period
Funded by: DFG - Cluster of Excellence
Type of project: Subproject in DFG-joint project hosted at University of Münster
Duration: 01/02/2012 - 31/12/2016
Funded by: International Council of Christians and Jews
Type of project: Individual project
Duration: 17/10/2011 - 09/01/2012
Type of project: Own resources project
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Prizes

Award for the E-Learning-Project Ethics and New Testament
Awarded by: University of Münster
Award given to: de Vos, J. Cornelis de; Meireis, Torsten
Announced at: 01/01/2005 | Date of awarding: 01/01/2005
Type of distinction: Research award or other distinction

Doctorates

Transformationen von Volk-Gottes-Vorstellungen. Eine vergleichende Untersuchung apokalyptischer Schriften aus der Zeit nach der Zerstörung des Zweiten Tempels…
Candidate: Dik, John | Supervisors: Doering, Prof. Dr. Lutz | Reviewers: Doering, Lutz; de Vos, Cornelis
Period of time: 01/10/2018 - 08/12/2023
Doctoral examination procedure finished at: Doctoral examination procedure at University of Münster