SOTS Essay Prize

The Society for Old Testament Study (SOTS) seeks to award each year an Essay Prize of £500 for an original piece of published or unpublished research. The competition is open to current doctoral students and to early-career scholars within five years of the viva examination. Entrants must be members of the Society or have (or have had) their doctorate supervised by a member of the Society. 

The winner of the 2025 Essay Prize was Moritz Franz Adam, for his essay “Ambiguity, Author-Function, and the Blurring of Historical Referentiality in Hellenistic Jewish Literature”, which was subsequently presented at the Summer Meeting 2026.

The 2026 essay prize is now closed for submissions. The winner will be announced at the online winter meeting in January 2027.

Full details of the prize are available here: