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Joseph is a first year DPhil student supervised by Professor Hindy Najman and Professor Tobias Reinhardt. His project hopes to explore the idea of the city within the works of Philo of Alexandria, looking at the literary and philosophical conceptions of the city as well as the archaeological evidence from Alexandria and other ancient cities. Joseph’s MPhil dissertation looked at obscure creatures in the Hebrew Bible and its translations and their implications for pluriform traditions and interpretations. Joseph’s interests include the LXX, biblical Hebrew poetry and poetic form, classical philosophy, the Dead Sea Scrolls, ancient art, archaeology, materiality, patristics, translation theory, biblical hermeneutics, metaphor, the Vulgate, and classical literature.