About

Dr. Mordechai (Motti) Inbari, PhD

Professor

PhD, MA, and BA from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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

Dr. Inbari is the author of six books: 1. Christian Zionism in the Twenty-First Century: American Evangelical Public Opinion on Israel (Oxford University Press, 2024) with Kirill Bumin. 2. Ruth Blau: A Life of Paradox and Purpose (Indiana University Press, 2023). This book won the Fanya Gottesfeld Heller Center for the Study of Women in Judaism, Bar Ilan University, and the Hadassah – Brandeis Institute Research Award. 3. The Making of Modern Jewish Identity: Ideological Change and Religious Conversion (Routledge, 2019) 4. Jewish Radical Ultra-Orthodoxy Confronts Modernity, Zionism, and Women’s Equality (Cambridge University Press, 2016) 5. Messianic Religious Zionism Confronts Israeli Territorial Compromises (Cambridge University Press, 2012). 6. Jewish Fundamentalism and the Temple Mount (SUNY, 2009). This manuscript won the AICE Israel Studies Best Publication Award, The Ben Shemesh Best Dissertation Award for the Study of Zionism and the State of Israel, and the Excellence Award from the Francis Gunter Foundation for Research on Jerusalem and its Environs, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Dr. Inbari has published research articles in The Journal of State and Church, Politics and Religion, Israel Studies, Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations. AJS Review, and more. He is often invited to give interviews to the press, and recently, NPR interviewed him, The Wall Street Journal, Religious News Service, The Times of Israel, and others.

Dr. Inbari regularly teaches the following upper-division classes: Violence and Religion, Jerusalem in Time, Space, and Imagination, Antisemitism: Ethnicity, Race, Religion, Culture, and Fundamentalisms.

For a full list of Dr. Inbari’s publications, see: https://uncp.academia.edu/MottiInbari