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James A. Diamond

James A. Diamond is the Joseph and Wolf Lebovic Chair of Jewish Studies, University of Waterloo, Canada, author of Maimonides and the Shaping of the Jewish Canon (Cambridge University Press) and most recently Reinventing Maimonides in Contemporary Jewish Thought (Littman Library) with Menachem Kellner.

Maimonides and Medinat Yisrael

April 28, 2020

Maimonides and Medinat Yisrael

By: James A. Diamond

Moses Maimonides may have left the Land of Israel for Egypt, but his thoughts on the messianic future are still relevant to the modern Zionist project.

The First Debate Over Religious Martyrdom

Summer 2013

The First Debate Over Religious Martyrdom

By: James A. Diamond

The name of God is sanctified when life is preserved, not when it is proclaimed great an instant before life is obliterated.

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