Lawrence H. Schiffman (M / United States, 1948), scholar

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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.

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