Mordechai Inbari

Professor of Religion
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  • Email:inbari@uncp.edu
  • Phone:910.775.4418
  • Office:Sampson Building, Room 107

Professor of Religion
Education: B.A., M.A., Ph.D., Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Dr. Inbari is a leading scholar in Jewish and Israeli studies. His teaching and research focus on Jewish history, thought and culture, with expertise in Jewish politics and ethics, gender and sexuality and Jewish-Christian relations.

Books:

  1. Christian Zionism in the Twenty-First Century (Oxford, 2024, with Kirill Bumin)

  2. Ruth Blau: A Life of Paradox and Purpose (Indiana, 2023) – winner of multiple awards

  3. The Making of Modern Jewish Identity (Routledge, 2019)

  4. Jewish Radical Ultra-Orthodoxy Confronts Modernity, Zionism and Women’s Equality (Cambridge, 2016)

  5. Messianic Religious Zionism Confronts Israeli Territorial Compromises (Cambridge, 2012)

  6. Jewish Fundamentalism and the Temple Mount (SUNY, 2009) – recipient of several publication and dissertation awards

Selected Journals:
The Journal of State and Church, Politics and Religion, Israel Studies, AJS Review, Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations

Dr. Inbari regularly teaches:

  • Violence and Religion

  • Jerusalem in Time, Space and Imagination

  • Antisemitism: Ethnicity, Race, Religion, Culture

  • Fundamentalisms

More at: uncp.academia.edu/MottiInbari