Topics
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.