# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lawrence-schiffman
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:26:19.595Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lawrence-schiffman"
name: "Lawrence Schiffman"
slug: "lawrence-schiffman"
description: "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 (NYU). 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."
tagline: "American historian"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/42/Lawrence-schiffman-dor-excavation.jpg/330px-Lawrence-schiffman-dor-excavation.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1948"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           39.09
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.60972
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://lawrenceschiffman.com"
sources:
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    title: "لورانس شيفمان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Lawrence Schiffman"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Schiffman"
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    title: "لارنس شیفمن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Schiffman"
    title: "Lawrence Schiffman"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6504569"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump