Lawrence Schiffman

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Lawrence H. Schiffman is the Ethel and Irvin A. Edelman Professor in Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University (NYU). He is a scholar in the field of Dead Sea Scrolls research. His major interests are Dead Sea Scrolls; Jewish religious, political, and social history in late antiquity; the history of Jewish law and Talmudic literature. He is a member of the Enoch seminar and of the Advisory Board of the Journal Henoch.

He is an Orthodox Jew.

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  • From Text to Tradition, A History of Judaism in Second Temple and Rabbinic Times (Hoboken, NJ: Ktav, 1989)
  • Reclaiming the Dead Sea Scrolls: The History of Judaism, the Background of Christianity, the Lost Library of Qumran (Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1994)
  • and James C. VanderKam (eds.). Encyclopedia of the Dead Sea Scrolls, 2 vols. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000)

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