| Omri Boehm | |
| Birth Date: | 1979 |
| Birth Place: | Gilon, Israel |
| Occupation: | Author, professor |
| Genre: | Non-fiction |
| Subject: | Philosophy, religion, politics |
Omri Boehm (Hebrew: עמרי בהם, born 1979) is an Israeli philosopher and associate professor of philosophy at the New School for Social Research.[1] [2] He is known for his interpretation of the Binding of Isaac (Genesis 22), work on Kant, and writing on Israel and Zionism.[3] [4] [5]
Boehm grew up in the Galilee.[6] He studied at the Adi Lautman Interdisciplinary Programme for Outstanding Students at Tel Aviv University and earned his PhD at Yale University.[7] He did a post-doc at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich in 2010.[8] He is associate professor of philosophy at the New School for Social Research based in New York City.
Boehm’s first book, The Binding of Isaac: a Religious Model of Disobedience, argues (contending that the verse in which God tells Abraham not to kill Isaac is a later addition) that Abraham disobeyed God’s command to sacrifice his son Isaac, and disobedience rather than obedience is the corner of Jewish faith.[9] His second book, Kant’s Critique of Spinoza, argues that the Critique of Pure Reason needs to be read as an answer to Spinoza’s Ethics. His latest book, Haifa Republic: A Democratic Future for Israel, develops a model for bi-national Zionism. His writings have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Haaretz and Die Zeit, among others.[10] [11]