Making the Bible Come to Life: Biblical Archaeology and the Teaching of Tanakh in Jewish Schools

Lawrence H. Schiffman

2003

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The fundamental issue surrounding the use of archaeological material to illuminate the Bible duplicates the classic Torah u-Madda question: How ought we to make use of wisdom or learning that can contribute to our spiritual lives or to our understanding of Torah when much of it has been developed outside the confines of our tradition? Even if…

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Lawrence H. Schiffman

b. 1948

Dead Sea Scrolls scholar Lawrence H. Schiffman grew up in Great Neck, New York, and earned his doctorate at Brandeis University. He has served as the chair of New York University’s Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies and as president of the Association for Jewish Studies. He is noted for his studies of late antiquity, the Talmud, and Jewish legal history and his role in securing the full publication of the Dead Sea Scrolls.

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