23 Facts About Lawrence Schiffman

Lawrence Harvey Schiffman born in 1948, is a professor at New York University ; he was formerly Vice-Provost of Undergraduate Education at Yeshiva University and Professor of Jewish Studies.

Lawrence Schiffman had previously been Chair of New York University's Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies and served as the Ethel and Irvin A Edelman Professor in Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University.

Lawrence Schiffman is currently the Judge Abraham Lieberman Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University and Director of the Global Institute for Advanced Research in Jewish Studies.

Lawrence Schiffman is a specialist in the Dead Sea Scrolls, Judaism in Late Antiquity, the history of Jewish law, and Talmudic literature.

Lawrence Schiffman received his BA, MA, and PhD degrees from the Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies at Brandeis University.

Lawrence Schiffman is a member of the University's Center for Ancient Studies and Center for Near Eastern Studies.

Lawrence Schiffman served as president of the Association for Jewish Studies from 2000 to 2003.

Lawrence Schiffman was a member of the academic committee for the Summer, 1997 celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls and the 2008 60th anniversary conference, both held in Jerusalem.

Lawrence Schiffman is a fellow of the American Academy for Jewish Research and a corresponding fellow of the Rennert Center for Jerusalem Studies at Bar-Ilan University.

Lawrence Schiffman has been chairman of the Columbia University Seminar for the Study of the Hebrew Bible.

Lawrence Schiffman is a member of the board of the World Union for Jewish Studies and the Society for Biblical Literature where he served as chairman of the Qumran section.

Lawrence Schiffman is a member of the Enoch seminar and of the advisory board of Henoch.

Lawrence Schiffman is chairman of the International Jewish Committee on Interreligious Consultations and led an IJCIC delegation for a meeting with Pope Francis at the Vatican in June 2013, according to the World Jewish Congress.

Lawrence Schiffman served on the academic panel of the Rohr Jewish Learning Institute's Sinai Scholars Society Academic Symposium, and as a scholar-in-residence at the National Jewish Retreat.

Lawrence Schiffman appears regularly in the popular educational series Mysteries of the Bible, which appears on Arts and Entertainment, and more recently, in the four-part series Kingdom of David on PBS.

Lawrence Schiffman served as director of New York University's program at the archaeological excavations at Dor, Israel, from 1980 to 1982, in conjunction with the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and the Israel Exploration Society.

Lawrence Schiffman has served as visiting professor at Yale University, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Duke University, Shier Visiting Distinguished Professor in Judaic Studies at the University of Toronto, the Johns Hopkins University, the Russian State University for the Humanities in Moscow, the Luce Visiting Professor at the University of Hartford and the Hartford Seminary, the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, Queens College and Yeshiva University.

In 1985, Lawrence Schiffman helped organize a Dead Sea Scrolls conference at New York University, where the field of Dead Sea Scrolls became organized as a separate field in Judaism in Late Antiquity.

Lawrence Schiffman played a role in the behind-the-scenes maneuvering that led to the full publication of the scrolls and to the decision of the Israel Antiquities Authority to make them fully available to the academic community.

Lawrence Schiffman focuses in his research on showing that the Dead Sea Scrolls are Jewish texts and do not have far-reaching and dramatic implications for the study of Christianity.

Lawrence Schiffman edited the journal Dead Sea Discoveries for ten years.

Lawrence Schiffman served as editor-in-chief of the Center for Online Judaic Studies in New York.

In 2011, Lawrence Schiffman was a consultant for the Dead Sea Scrolls exhibit which showcased the significance of the scrolls at Discovery Times Square.