Hila Dayfani wrote her Ph.D. dissertation at Bar-Ilan University under the supervision of Prof. Nili Samet and Prof. Emanuel Tov from the Hebrew University (2020). After completing her dissertation, she was a postdoctoral fellow at Tel Aviv University as part of the SQE research project and at the Centre for the Study of the Bible at the University of Oxford. Dr. Dayfani’s research focuses on biblical studies, Second Temple literature, and the Dead Sea Scrolls. Her first monograph, The Transmission of the Pentateuch (De Gruyter 2023), combines tools from the field of textual criticism and paleography to trace the activity of the ancient scribes in Judah and Samaria who copied and transmitted the Pentateuch and examine the scope of the transmission process in the last centuries BCE. Her current project at Mandel Scholion deals with the conception of the Torah as a unified literary work and the relationship between its five books in the Second Temple period.