Lawrence H. Schiffman (M / United States, 1948), scholar
Lawrence H. Schiffman (b.1948) is a Jewish-American scholar. Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education at Yeshiva University (New York, NY). Lawrence H. Schiffman is a Qumran specialist. B.A. and M.A. 1970, Brandeis University; Ph.D. 1974, Near Eastern and Judaic Studies, Brandeis University. For many years he was Ethel and Irvin A. Edelman Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies and Chairman of the Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, New York University. In 2011, he was appointed Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education at Yeshiva University.
A leading Qumran scholar, Schiffman presents the scrolls as Jewish texts that have limited relevance for Christianity. Schiffman was instrumental in obtaining full access to the scrolls by the academic community, and has dedicated a significant part of his professional career to publishing the scrolls, much of his work appearing in the Oxford series Discoveries in the Judean Desert. Former editor of Dead Sea Discoveries. Editor of the Oxford Encyclopedia of the Dead Sea Scrolls (2000). Editor of the Center for Online Judaic Studies in New York. Member of the Enoch Seminar and of the journal Henoch.
Works
Books
Edited volumes
Articles in edited volumes
- The Conversion of the Royal House of Adiabene in Josephus and Rabbinic Sources - Josephus, Judaism, and Christianity (1987 Feldman/Hata), edited volume
- Laws Pertaining to Women in the Temple Scroll - The Dead Sea Scrolls: Forty Years of Research (1992 Dimant/Rappaport), edited volume
- The Sadducean Origins of the Dead Sea Scroll Sect" - Understanding the Dead Sea Scrolls (1992 Shanks), edited volume
- The Temple Scroll and the Nature of Its Law: The Status of the Question - The Community of the Renewed Covenant (1994 Ulrich/VanderKam), edited volume
- The Jewishness of Jesus: Commandments concerning Interpersonal Relations - Jews & Christians Speak of Jesus (1994 Zannoni), edited volume
- The Place of 4QMMT in the Corpus of Qumran Manuscripts - Reading 4QMMT (1996 Kampen/Bernstein), edited volume
- Biblical Perspectives: Early Use and Interpretation of the Bible in Light of the Dead Sea Scrolls (1998 Stone/Chazon), edited volume
- The Dead Scrolls in Their Historical Context (2000 Lim), edited volume
- Copper Scroll Studies (2002 Brooke/Davies), edited volume
- The Dead Sea Scrolls and Rabbinic Halakhah - The Dead Sea Scrolls as Background to Postbiblical Judaism and Early Christianity (2003 Davila), edited volume
- Halakhic Elements in the Sapiential Texts from Qumran - Sapiential Perspectives: Wisdom Literature in Light of the Dead Sea Scrolls (2004 Collins/Sterling/Clements), edited volume
- Il messia tra memoria e attesa (2005 Boccaccini), edited volume
- 3 Enoch and the Enoch Tradition - Enoch and Qumran Origins (2005 Boccaccini), edited volume
- Prohibited Marriages in the Dead Sea Scrolls and Rabbinic Literature - Rabbinic Perspectives: Rabbinic Literature and the Dead Sea Scrolls (2006 Fraade/Shemesh/Clements), edited volume
- Are the Dead Sea Scrolls Historical Texts?" - Historical Knowledge in Biblical Antiquity (2007 Neusner/Chilton/Green), edited volume
- The Book of Jubilees and the Temple Scrolls - Enoch and the Mosaic Torah (2009 Boccaccini/Ibba), edited volume
- Temple, Sacrifice and Priesthood in the Epistle to the Hebrews and the Dead Sea Scrolls - Echoes from the Caves: Qumran and the New Testament (2009 García Martínez), edited volume