Lawrence H. Schiffman is the Ethel an Irvin A. Edelman Professor in Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University (NYU). He is a scholar in the field of Dead Sea Scrolls research. His major interests are Dead Sea Scrolls; Jewish religious, political, and social history in late antiquity; the history of Jewish law and Talmudic literature. He is a member of the Enoch seminar and of the Advisory Board of the Journal Henoch.