Lawrence H. Schiffman

Ph.D. 1974 (Near Eastern and Judaic studies), M.A. and B.A. 1970 (Near Eastern and Judaic studies), Brandeis.

Dead Sea Scrolls; Jewish religious, political, and social history in late antiquity; the history of Jewish law and Talmudic literature.

Dead Sea Scrolls Foundation, member Board of Directors Fellow, American Academy for Jewish Research Association for Jewish Studies (Vice President for Publications) International Organization for Qumran Studies Israel Exploration Society Jewish Law Association Society of Biblical Literature (have served on Editorial Board and as chairman, Qumran Section) University Seminar for the Study of the Hebrew Bible, Columbia University University Seminar on Israel and Jewish Studies, Columbia University World Union of Jewish Studies (member of the council) Corresponding Fellow, Rennert Center for Jerusalem Studies, Bar-Ilan University.

Fellow, American Academy for Jewish Research, Association for Jewish Studies (past President), International Organization for Qumran Studies, Society of Biblical Literature, University Seminar for the Study of the Hebrew Bible, Columbia University, World Union of Jewish Studies (member of the council),

Visiting Crane Professor, Johns Hopkins University, 1996; Shoshana Shier Distinguished Visiting Professor, University of Toronto, 1996; Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, 1989-1990; Fellow, Annenberg Research Institute (now Center for Judaic Studies of the University of Pennsylvania), 1992-1993; Visiting Professor: Yale University, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Duke University, the Russian State University for the Humanities in Moscow, the Pontifical Gregorian University and Pontifical Biblical Institute, and the University of Vienna. National Foundation for Jewish Culture Scholarship Award, 2006, Association for Jewish Libraries Judaica Reference Award, 2014; National Jewish Book Award, 2015. In 220 he was honored with a Festschrift, From Scrolls to Traditions.