Lawrence Schiffman

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Lawrence Schiffman's Degrees

PhD Hebrew and Judaic Studies New York University
Masters Hebrew and Judaic Studies New York University
Bachelors Hebrew and Judaic Studies Yeshiva University

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According to Wikipedia, Lawrence Harvey Schiffman is a professor at New York University ; he was formerly Vice-Provost of Undergraduate Education at Yeshiva University and Professor of Jewish Studies . He 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 . He 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. He is a specialist in the Dead Sea Scrolls, Judaism in Late Antiquity, the history of Jewish law, and Talmudic literature.

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Who Was a Jew?: Rabbinic and Halakhic Perspectives on the Jewish Christian Schism (1985) (55)
The Eschatological Community of the Dead Sea Scrolls: A Study of the Rule of the Congregation (1989) (51)
Encyclopedia of the Dead Sea Scrolls (2000) (48)
The Samaritans in Tannaitic Halakhah (1985) (44)
Reclaiming the Dead Sea Scrolls (1994) (38)
The Dead Sea Scrolls. Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek Texts with English Translations: Volume 1: Rule of the Community and Related Documents (1994) (34)
An Unknown Jewish Sect (1970) (32)
Reclaiming the Dead Sea scrolls : the history of Judaism, the background of Christianity, the lost library of Qumran (1994) (30)
The New Halakhic Letter (4QMMT) and the Origins of the Dead Sea Sect (1990) (26)
Emanuel : studies in Hebrew Bible, Septuagint, and Dead Sea scrolls in honor of Emanuel Tov (2003) (25)
The Dead Sea Scrolls Fifty years after their Discovery (2000) (24)
Sectarian Laws in the Dead Sea Scrolls: Courts, Testimony, and the Penal Code (1985) (19)
“Memory And Manuscript”: Books, Scrolls, And The Tradition Of The Qumran Texts (2010) (19)
The Halakhah at Qumran (1997) (19)
The courtyards of the house of the Lord (2008) (18)
The Dead Sea Scrolls and Contemporary Culture (2011) (17)
Ki Baruch hu : ancient Near Eastern, biblical, and Judaic studies in honor of Baruch A. Levine (1999) (17)
Hebrew and Aramaic incantation texts from the Cairo Genizah : selected texts from Taylor-Schechter Box K1 (1993) (16)
Sectarian Law in the Dead Sea Scrolls (2020) (16)
Encyclopedia of the Dead Sea Scrolls (2 Vols) (2000) (16)
Texts and Traditions: A Source Reader for the Study of Second Temple and Rabbinic Judaism (1997) (16)
War and Peace in the Jewish Tradition (2007) (16)
Outside the Bible : ancient Jewish writings related to scripture (2013) (15)
Chapter Twenty-Seven. The Deuteronomic Paraphrase Of The Temple Scroll (2008) (15)
The Dead Sea Scrolls, Fifty Years after Their Discovery: Proceedings of the Jerusalem Congress, July 20-25, 1997 (2003) (14)
Archaeology and History in the Dead Sea Scrolls: The New York University Conference in Memory of Yigael Yadin (1990) (13)
The King, His Guard, and the Royal Council in the Temple Scroll (1987) (13)
The Dead Sea Scrolls and the History of Judaism (2000) (12)
Time to Prepare the Way in the Wilderness: Papers on the Qumran Scrolls by Fellows of the Institute for Advanced Studies of The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 1989-1990 (1994) (12)
Messianism and apocalypticism in rabbinic texts (2006) (11)
The Dead Sea scrolls and contemporary culture : proceedings of the international conference held at the Israel Museum, Jerusalem (July 6-8, 2008) (2011) (10)
The Dead Sea Scrolls at 60 (2010) (9)
The hymns of Qumran (1981) (8)
The Unfinished Scroll: A Reconsideration of the End of the Temple Scroll (2008) (7)
Inverting Reality: The Dead Sea Scrolls in the Popular Media (2005) (7)
Chapter Thirty-One. Laws Pertaining To Women In The Temple Scroll (2008) (7)
Studies in medieval Jewish intellectual and social history : festschrift in honor of Robert Chazan (2012) (7)
Chapter Seven. The Sacrificial System Of The Temple Scroll And The Book Of Jubilees (2008) (5)
The Greek Minor Prophets Scroll from Nahal Hever (8hevxiigr): The Seiyal Collection I (1990) (5)
Confronting Antisemitism in Modern Media, the Legal and Political Worlds (2021) (5)
Was the Dead Sea Sect an Apocalyptic Movement? (1997) (5)
Origin and Early History of the Qumran Sect (1995) (4)
The Body in Qumran Literature: Flesh and Spirit, Purity and Impurity in the Dead Sea Scrolls (2016) (4)
The Theology of the Temple Scroll (1994) (4)
The Samaritans in Amoraic Halakhah (2012) (3)
MOTHERS, SISTERS, AND ELDERS: TITLES FOR WOMEN IN SECOND TEMPLE JEWISH AND EARLY CHRISTIAN COMMUNITIES (2003) (3)
UTOPIA AND REALITY: POLITICAL LEADERS HIP AND ORCANIZATION IN THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS COMMUNITY (2003) (3)
Targum Neofiti 1: An Exegetical Commentary to Genesis, Including Full Rabbinic Parallels (2002) (3)
The seven-day siege of Jericho in holy war (1999) (3)
The Concept of the Messiah in Second Temple and Rabbinic Literature (1987) (3)
The Eschatological Community of the Serekh ha-'Edah (1984) (3)
Laws Pertaining To Women And Sexuality In The Early Stratum Of The Damascus Document (2011) (3)
Exclusion from the Sanctuary and the City of the Sanctuary in the Temple Scroll (2008) (3)
Chapter Nine. The Relationship Of The Zadokite Fragments To The Temple Scroll (2008) (3)
Chapter Ten. The Temple Scroll And The Halakhic Pseudepigrapha Of The Second Temple Period (2008) (3)
Pre-Maccabean Halakhah in the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Biblical Tradition (2006) (3)
Sacrificial Halakhah in the Fragments of the Aramaic Levi Document from Qumran, the Cairo Genizah, and Mt. Athos Monastery (2005) (3)
Confronting Antisemitism from the Perspectives of Christianity, Islam, and Judaism (2020) (2)
Elisha at Dothan (2 Kings 6:8-23): Historico-literary criticism sustained by the midrash (1999) (2)
Semitic Papyrology in Context: A Climate of Creativity. Papers from a New York University Conference Marking the Retirement of Baruch A. Levine (2003) (2)
Chapter Thirty-Three. The Law Of Vows And Oaths (Num 30, 3–16) In The Zadokite Fragments And The Temple Scroll (2008) (2)
Chapter Twenty-Six. Pharisaic And Sadducean Halakhah In Light Of The Dead Sea Scrolls: The Case Of Ṭevul Yom (2008) (2)
HALAKHIC ELEMENTS IN THE SAPIENTIAL TEXTS FROM QUMRAN (2004) (2)
The Dead Sea scrolls at 60 : scholarly contributions of New York University faculty and alumni (2010) (2)
The Temple Scroll (2021) (2)
The Rabbinic Understanding of Covenant (1987) (2)
THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS AND RABBINIC HALAKHAH (2003) (2)
Temple, Sacrifice And Priesthood In The Epistle To The Hebrews And The Dead Sea Scrolls (2009) (2)
Chapter Eight. Miqṣat Ma’aśe Ha-Torah And The Temple Scroll (2008) (2)
THE CASE OF THE DAY OF ATONEMENT RITUAL (2008) (2)
According To Mark (2010) (2)
Pharisaic and Sadducean Halakhah in Light of the Dead Sea Scrolls (1994) (2)
Temple scroll and related documents (2011) (1)
Jesus and the Forgotten City, New Light on Sepphoris and the Urban World of Jesus. Richard A. Batey and J. Robert Teringo. (1992) (1)
Chapter Thirty-Two. Priestly And Levitical Gifts In The Temple Scroll (2008) (1)
Intertextuality in the Dead Sea Scrolls (2019) (1)
The Many Battles of the Scrolls (2002) (1)
Scrolls, Testament and Talmud: Issues of Antisemitism in the Study of Ancient Judaism (2019) (1)
Second Temple Literature and the Cairo Genizah (1997) (1)
PRIESTLY AND LEVITICAL GIFTS IN THE (1999) (1)
Chapter Six. The Septuagint And The Temple Scroll: Shared “Halakhic” Variants (2008) (1)
Chapter Twenty-Five. The Impurity Of The Dead In The Temple Scroll (2008) (1)
The Interchange of the Prepositions Bet and Mem in the Texts from Qumran (1982) (1)
Laws Pertaining to Forbidden Foods in the Dead Sea Scrolls (2010) (1)
Chapter Three. The Temple Scroll And The Nature Of Its Law: The Status Of The Question (2008) (1)
Purity regulations concerning the Sabbath in the Dead Sea scrolls and related literature (2000) (1)
Comprehending and Confronting Antisemitism (2019) (1)
From Observation to Calculation:: The Development of the Rabbinic Lunar Calendar (2012) (1)
Appendix II. (The) Son Of (The) Man, And Jesus (2010) (1)
‘Go Out and Study the Land’ (Judges 18:2) (2011) (1)
The Milluim Ceremony In The Temple Scroll (1994) (1)
Chapter Seventeen. Sacred Space: The Land Of Israel In The Temple Scroll (2008) (1)
Pseudepigrapha in the pseudepigrapha: Mythical books in second temple literature (2004) (1)
Chapter Eleven. Descriptions Of The Jerusalem Temple In Josephus And The Temple Scroll (2008) (1)
Chapter Thirty. Laws Of War In The Temple Scroll (2008) (1)
Prohibited Marriages in the Dead Sea Scrolls and Rabbinic Literature (2006) (1)
The construction of the Temple according to the Temple scroll (2008) (1)
The House of the Laver in the Temple Scroll (2008) (1)
Chapter Twenty-Three. Shelamim Sacrifices In The Temple Scroll (2008) (1)
Jewish Law in the Gospels in Light of the Dead Sea Scrolls (2021) (0)
Chapter Four. ‘Ir Ha-Miqdash And Its Meaning In The Temple Scroll And Other Qumran Texts (2008) (0)
11Q20 (11QTemple Scrollb) (2021) (0)
On the Edge of the Diaspora: Jews in the Dead Sea Region in the First Two Centuries C.E. (2011) (0)
Jerusalem Talmud Megillah 1 (71b–72a) – “Of the Making of Books”: Rabbinic Scribal Arts in Light of the Dead Sea Scrolls (2014) (0)
From The Cairo Genizah To Qumran: The Influence Of The Zadokite Fragments On The Study Of The Qumran Scrolls (2010) (0)
Second Temple Jewish Law in Light of the Dead Sea Scrolls: Widening the Paradigm (2019) (0)
Monarchy and Polity: (2018) (0)
Chapter Thirteen. Architecture And Law: The Temple And Its Courtyards In The Temple Scroll (2008) (0)
DESCRIPTIONS OF THE JERUSALEM TEMPLE IN JOSEPHUS AND THE (2001) (0)
Second Temple Literature and Rabbinic Judaism (2011) (0)
The Temple Scroll. Yigael Yadin. (1985) (0)
Ronald J. Williams, Hebrew Syntax: An Outline. 2nd ed. (Toronto and Buffalo: University of Toronto Press, 1976). Pp. 122 + x. (1976) (0)
Qumran Temple?: The Literary Evidence (2016) (0)
Tov Emanuel. The Textual Criticism of the Bible: An Introduction . Jerusalem: Mossad Bialik, 1989. xxiv, 326 pp. (Hebrew). (1993) (0)
2 Enoch and Halakhah (2012) (0)
The Judean Desert Scrolls And The History Of Judaism And Christianity (2010) (0)
Edition of the Manuscript with Critical Notes (2018) (0)
Letter to the Readers (1992) (0)
Howard Eilberg-Schwartz CREATION AND CLASSIFICATION IN JUDAISM: FROM PRIESTLY (2008) (0)
5 Sacrifice in the Dead Sea Scrolls (2014) (0)
4QMysteries, a preliminary edition (1993) (0)
Cave 1 Was Not the First (2001) (0)
JOSEPHUS AND EARLY HALAKHAH: THE EXCLUSION OF IMPURE PERSONS FROM HOLY PRECINCTS* (2011) (0)
Talmudic Monetary Theory: Currency In Rabbinic Halakhah (2010) (0)
Chapter Twenty-Eight. Laws Concerning Idolatry In The Temple Scroll (2008) (0)
'Ir Ha-Miqdash And Its Meaning In The Temple Scroll And Other Qumran Texts (1998) (0)
STUDIES ON THE TEXTS OF THE DESERT OF JUDAH (1995) (0)
Association for Jewish Studies Newsletter-Spring 1992 (1992) (0)
Are the Dead Sea Scrolls Historical Texts (2007) (0)
The Patriarchs and Halakhah in the Dead Sea Scrolls (2013) (0)
Appendix III. Rabbi As A Title Of Jesus (2010) (0)
The Contribution of Hanan Eshel to the Study of the Judean Desert Documents (2014) (0)
A Comparative Handbook to the Gospels of Matthew and Luke (2021) (0)
1 Matthew 9:20–22: “And Behold, a Woman Who Had Suffered from a Hemorrhage”—The Bleeding Woman in Matthew, Mark, and Luke: Perspectives from Qumran and Rabbinic Literature (2016) (0)
Thanks to Aaron Katchen (2004) (0)
Chapter Five. The Architectural Vocabulary Of The Copper Scroll And The Temple Scroll (2008) (0)
THE COMPUTER-AIDED CRITICAL EDITION: FEATURES AND EXTENSIONS (2016) (0)
PHARISAIC AND SADDUCEAN HALAKHAH (2016) (0)
Chapter One. The Law Of The Temple Scroll And Its Provenance (2008) (0)
General Introduction “An End to Antisemitism!” (2019) (0)
60 years with the Dead seal scrolls: Part 2 (2007) (0)
Binding Fragments of Tractate Temurah and the Problem of Lishana Aḥarina (2018) (0)
Laws Pertaining to Purification after Childbirth in the Dead Sea Scrolls (2018) (0)
4Q470, preliminary publication of a fragment mentioning Zedekiah (1994) (0)
THE PHARISEES AND THEIR LEGAL TRADITIONS ACCORDING TO THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS (2001) (0)
2. Archaeology and Epigraphy (2012) (0)
New Halakhic Texts from Qumran (1993) (0)
Index of Modern Authors (2011) (0)
The Mikhbar in the Temple Scroll (2017) (0)
Learning About Ourselves While Learning About Each Other (2011) (0)
Schiffman, "Eschatological Community of the Dead Sea Scrolls" (1992) (0)
Modification of Biblical Law in the Temple Scroll (2011) (0)
Shelamim Sacrifices in the Temple Scroll in Yigael Yadin. In memoriam. (1989) (0)
Anthony J. Saldarini. Scholastic Rabbinism: A Literary Study of the Fathers According to Rabbi Nathan . Brown Judaic Studies, no. 14. Chico, Calif.: Scholars Press, 1982. x + 161 pp. (1984) (0)
Dead Sea Scrolls (2012) (0)
Jerusalem: Twice Destroyed, Twice Rebuilt. (2003) (0)
The Dead Sea Scrolls and the History of the Jewish Book (2010) (0)
JEWISH LAW AT QUMRAN (2001) (0)
INDEX OF SCHOLARS (2021) (0)
Appendix I. Rabbinic Rules Of Interpretation (2010) (0)
Executive summary (2019) (0)
History and Liturgy: The Evolution of Multiple Prayer Rites (2011) (0)
Chapter Twenty-Two. ῾Ôlâ and Ḥaṭṭā᾿t in the Temple Scroll (2008) (0)
La réponse de la halakha à l'ascension du christianisme (2003) (0)
Chapter Eighteen. Sacral And Non-Sacral Slaughter According To The Temple Scroll (2008) (0)
11Q19 (11QTemple Scrolla) (2021) (0)
Writings in the Dead Sea Scrolls (2018) (0)
Chapter Fifteen. The Furnishings Of The Temple According To The Temple Scroll (2008) (0)
Bokser's "Samuel on Berakhot" (1986) (0)
Willett, "Eschatology in the Theodicies of 2 Baruch and 4 Ezra" (1992) (0)
Schiffman's "Sectarian Law in the Dead Sea Scrolls" (1984) (0)
The Law Of Conscription In The War Scroll (2010) (0)
Appendix IV. Synagogues (2010) (0)
Robert Chazan: In Appreciation and Friendship (2012) (0)
Book Reviews : Entry Into Ugarit (1984) (0)
Synopses of NYU Manuscript of BT Temurah, Chapter 1 (2018) (0)
Book Review:The Canonization of the Synagogue Service Lawrence A. Hoffman (1983) (0)
Chapter Twelve. The Prohibition Of Judicial Corruption In The Dead Sea Scrolls, Philo, Josephus And Talmudic Law (2008) (0)
Index Of Sources (2010) (0)
4. The Temple Scroll: A Utopian Temple Plan For Second Temple Times (2011) (0)
Chapter Twenty-One. Some Laws Pertaining To Animals In Temple Scroll, Column 52 (2008) (0)
From Temple to Torah: Rabbinic Judaism in Light of the Dead Sea Scrolls (2012) (0)
Confronting Antisemitism from Perspectives of Philosophy and Social Sciences (2021) (0)
The Religion of the Dead Sea Scrolls: Creation, Revelation and Redemption, pt. 3 (2006) (0)
Neusner's "Messiah in Context" (1986) (0)
Joseph Fitzmyer: An Appreciation (2003) (0)

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