Marc Shapiro

Education

Ph.D., Harvard University
B.A., Brandeis University

Bio

Marc B. Shapiro holds the Weinberg Chair in Judaic Studies at the University of Scranton. A graduate of Brandeis (BA) and Harvard (PhD), he is the author of numerous books, articles, and reviews and is a popular scholar in residence at synagogues around the world. He has written Between the Yeshiva World and Modern Orthodoxy and The Limits of Orthodox Theology, both of which were National Jewish Book Award Finalists. Other books of his include Saul Lieberman and the Orthodox, Studies in Maimonides and His Interpreters, and Changing the Immutable: How Orthodox Judaism Rewrites Its History. In 2019 he published Iggerot Malkhei Rabbanan which contains more than thirty years of correspondence with some of the world's most outstanding Torah scholars. His most recent book is Renewing the Old, Sanctifying the New: The Unique Vision of Rav Kook, which was a Rabbi Sacks Book Prize finalist.

Courses Taught

• TRS 219 Religions of the World
• TRS 217 Holocaust in Context
• TRS 210 Jews Christians and the Bible (undergraduate and graduate levels)
• TRS 337 Ethics: The Jewish Tradition
• TRS 336 Jewish Way of Life
• TRS 335 Judaism in the Time of Jesus (undergraduate and graduate levels)
• HEBR 101-102 Biblical Hebrew