James A. Diamond, LL.M., PhD, is the Joseph and Wolf Lebovic Chair of Jewish Studies at the University of Waterloo His principal areas of research include biblical exegesis, medieval and modern Jewish thought and philosophy, Maimonides, and rabbinics. He has published widely on all areas of Jewish thought in many leading peer reviewed scholarly journals, such as Harvard Theological Review and the Journal of Religion. His books include Maimonides and the Hermeneutics of Concealment (SUNY Press), Converts, Heretics, and Lepers: Maimonides and the Outsider, (University of Notre Dame Press), Maimonides and the Shaping of the Jewish Canon (Cambridge University Press), Reinventing Maimonides in Contemporary Jewish Thought, co-authored with Menachem Kellner (Littman Library of Jewish Civilization), and Jewish Theology Unbound (Oxford University Press). He is currently completing a book to be published by the Littman Library of Jewish Civilization in the coming year, Confronting Divine Rage in the Warsaw Ghetto: The Sermons of R. Kalonymus Kalman Shapira.
