Liora Goldman received her B.A (cum laude) in Jewish History and Archaeology from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and holds a Teaching Diploma in Bible and History from the Kerem Institute (Jerusalem). She received her M.A (cum laude) in Jewish History from the University of Haifa, proceeding to specialize in Jewish Literature of Second Temple Period, including late biblical Books, Qumran studies, apocryphal and pseudepigraphal literature. She received Ph.D in 2008 (summa cum laude) from the University of Haifa, her dissertation being entitled “Bible Interpretation and Pesher Exegesis in the Damascus Document.”
 Under the sponsorship of an ISF Research Scholarship (2005-2008), Goldman produced a new edition of the Moses Apocryphon from Qumran (1Q29, 4Q375, 4Q376, 4Q408). Her postdoctoral research (2008-2012) focuses on the Aramaic Visions of Amram (4Q543-549) as part of a joint project between Göttingen and Haifa Universities funded by the DFG under the supervision of Prof. Kratz (Faculty of Theology, Georg-August-Universität) and Prof. Dimant (Department of Biblical Studies, University of Haifa), as well as on the patriarchs and Genesis in the non-sectarian scrolls from Qumran. Her current research focus lies on the figure of Moses in diverse corpora of the Dead Sea Scrolls.