Speaker Profile Dr. James A. Diamond

Professor James A. Diamond is the Joseph and Wolf Lebovic Chair of Jewish Studies at the University of Waterloo. He holds a Ph.D. in Religious Studies and Medieval Jewish Thought from the University of Toronto, and an LL.M. from New York University’s Law School. He is also a Herzl Institute/Templeton Foundation Fellow. Dr. Diamond is the author of Maimonides and the Hermeneutics of Concealment (SUNY, 2002) which was awarded the Canadian Jewish Book Award and Converts, Heretics and Lepers: Maimonides and the Outsider (University of Notre Dame, 2008), awarded Notable Selection-Jordan Schnitzer Book Award in the Category of Philosophy and Jewish Thought for best book in 4 years (2008). His most recent book, Maimonides and the Shaping of the Jewish Canon (Cambridge, 2014) was a recipient of the Canadian Jewish Literary Award and his book Jewish Philosophical Theology Unbound is forthcoming next fall from Oxford University Press.

Speaker's Resources

The People and the Book 2017

Dr. Elliott Malamet, Dr. James A. Diamond, Ora Ziring, Rabbi Shlomo Gemara, Rabbi Zvi Grumet, Rav Yosef Carmel
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Feb 6, 2017

A Panel Discussion

Dr. Daniel J. Lasker, Dr. James A. Diamond, Dr. Kenneth Hart Green, Dr. Kenneth Seeskin
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Sep 17, 2011
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Mar 10, 2011
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Sep 4, 2010
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May 5, 2007
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Apr 29, 2007
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Apr 22, 2007
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Apr 15, 2007