321About the Contributors
Marc Zvi Brettler is the Dora Golding Professor of Biblical Studies at Bran-
deis University. He is coeditor of the recently published Th e Jewish An-
notated New Testament and of Th e Jewish Study Bible, which won a Na-
tional Jewish Book Award, and he wrote How to Read the Jewish Bible,
among other books and articles. He was interviewed by Terry Gross on
Fresh Air.
Shalom Carmy teaches philosophy and Jewish studies at Yeshiva University,
where he is cochair of Jewish Studies Executive of Yeshiva College. He is
editor of Tradition: A Journal of Orthodox Jewish Th ought. He is editor
of Modern Scholarship in the Study of Torah: Contributions and Limi-
tations (1996), Jewish Perspectives on the Experience of Suff ering (1999),
and Rabbi Soloveitchik’s Worship of the Heart (2003). His writing focuses
on biblical theology, modern Orthodox theology, and the interface of
Torah and the liberal arts.
Jonathan Cohen is Associate Professor of Philosophy of Education and
Jewish Education at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He currently
serves as director of the Hebrew University’s School of Education. He is
the author of Philosophers and Scholars: Wolfson, Guttmann, and Strauss
on the History of Jewish Philosophy.
James A. Diamond holds the Joseph and Wolf Lebovic Chair of Jewish
Studies at the University of Waterloo. He has published widely on Jew-
ish thought, philosophy, and biblical exegesis. His books include Mai-
monides and the Hermeneutics of Concealment and Converts, Heretics,
and Lepers: Maimonides and the Outsider. He is currently completing an
intellectual history of engagements with Maimonides from medieval to
modern times.
Yael S. Feldman holds the Abraham I. Katsh Chair of Hebrew Culture and
is Professor of Comparative Literature and Gender Studies at New York