In addition to Prof. Schiffman’s academic work, he also lectures at synagogues, Chabad houses and community events.

Selected Lecture Topics:

• Archaeology and the Bible: Friends or Foes
• Archaeology and the Dead Sea Scrolls—A Slide Lecture
• At the Crossroads: The Jewish-Christian Schism
• The Baal Shem Tov: 300 Years from the Founding of Hasidism
• The Cairo Genizah: The Rediscovery of the Jewish Past–with or without slides
• The Dead Sea Scrolls and the History of Judaism—with or without slides
• The Dead Sea Scrolls and the History of Hebrew Language and Literature—A Slide Lecture
• The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Jewish Origins of Christianity
• The Enduring Legacy of Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi
• The Gaon of Vilna and his Enduring Legacy: 200 Years after his Death
• Iraq and the Jews: Perspectives from Jewish History
• Jerusalem: Twice Destroyed, Twice Rebuilt (with slides)
• Jewish Leadership in Halakhah and History
• The Jewish Claim to Jerusalem and the Land of Israel
• Judaism and Islam: Their Historical Relationship
• Judaism, Islam and Israel’s Crisis with Terrorism
• Masada and Bar Kokhba: The Other Dead Sea Scrolls (with slides)
• The Modern Mystical Movement: Three Hundred years of Hasidism
• The Passion: What Really Happened
• Pharisees, Sadducees, and the Dead Sea Scrolls
• Rediscovering Bar Kokhba
• Rabbis and Sectarians: The Dead Sea Scrolls and Rabbinic Judaism
• Rereading Genesis: Biblical Creation and Modern Science
• Scholars, Scrolls, and Scandals: Judaism, Christianity, and the Dead Sea Scrolls—with or without slides
• Sects and Schisms in Ancient and Modern Judaism
• A Tale of Three Revolts: Maccabees, Zealots, and Messiahs
• The Temple Mount: Past Present and Future
• “This Land is Your Land:” The Jewish Claim to Jerusalem and the Land of Israel
• Waiting for Mashiach: The Messianic Idea in Jewish History
• The Western Wall Tunnels and the Temple Mount—A Slide Lecture
• Who Was a Jew? Controversies over Jewish Identity from Ancient to Modern Times
• Who Wrote the Bible: Orthodoxy and Biblical Criticism
• Written Torah, Oral Torah, and the Authority of the Rabbis
• The Lubavitcher Rebbe and Gentiles
• The Lubavitcher Rebbe’s Torah Scholarship
• Lubavitch’s Openess

Please contact Prof. Schiffman to arrange a lecture in your community.