lawrence h. schiffman (b. 1948) was appointed as the vice-provost of undergraduate education at yeshiva university and professor of jewish studies in early 2011. he had been the 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 a specialist in the dead sea scrolls, judaism in late antiquity, the history of jewish law, and talmudic literature.