BA
Dylan Moss is a first-year MPhil student supervised by Professor Hindy Najman. His studies are generously funded through the Ertegun Graduate Scholarship Programme in the Humanities. In 2025 he finished a BA in Hebrew also at Oxford, as part of which he studied for a period at the Freie Universität Berlin. He won the 2025 BIAJS undergraduate essay prize for his dissertation supervised by Professor Judith Olszowy-Schlanger on a medieval Arthurian Romance in Hebrew, examining the ways in which its Jewish author presents Lancelot in that text as a “new King David.”
In the MPhil, Dylan looks forward to using the intensive training in Hebrew that he received as an undergraduate to explore his interests in ancient Jewish cosmology, cultural interaction between Judaism and Persia in antiquity, and rabbinic biblical interpretation. Coming from a philological background, he also hopes to think about how philology in biblical studies may be revitalised in light of critical assessments of philology currently in scholarship.