A short biography of Lawrence Schiffman

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Professor Schiffman is Ethel and Irvin A. Edelman Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies and Chair of New York University's Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies. He is an internationally recognized authority on the Dead Sea Scrolls, and the author of several books, including The Halakhah at Qumran; Reclaiming the Dead Sea Scrolls; and Who Was A Jew?

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Texts and Traditions List Price: $37.00 A companion text to Professor Schiffman's well organized history of Judaism From Text to Tradition: A History of the Second Temple and Rabbinic Judaism, this volume buttresses the foundations by providing primary source materials.		From Text to Tradition List Price: $26.95 This volume examines the history of Judaism as it developed from the religion of biblical Israel to the Judaism of the talmudic rabbis

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