Table of Contents

Foreword by Jack Miles
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Preliminary Methodological Considerations
Chapter 3: Abraham: A Model of Obedience?
Chapter 4: The Original Abraham Story: Abraham's Disobedience
Chapter 5: Abraham's Ethical Protest: The Trial of Sodom
Chapter 6: Abraham's Journey to the Land of Moriah
Chapter 7: The Religious Significance of the Akedah
Chapter 8: "The Prevention of Sacrifice": Ibn Caspi's Interpretation
Chapter 9: Maimonides on the True Nature of Prophecy
Chapter 10: Between Job and Abraham
Chapter 11: On Fearing God without Being Afraid of Him: From Kierkegaard to Kant
Chapter 12: A Religious Model of Disobedience

Promotional Information

Omri Boehm presents his new thesis that the monotheistic model of faith presented by Abraham was actually a model of disobedience.

About the Author

Omri Boehm is Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research, USA.

Reviews

"...a rare delight. Boehm offers a fresh and sometimes disturbing reading... This is a rich and thought-provoking book that definitely deserves to be read. It can be argued that its message lies right in time: we are today more prone to accept a reading of disobedience than ever before, and it fits well into much contemporary research in the fields of the prophets (of resisting prophetic metaphors) and of Lamentations (of picking up the counter-voices of the lamenters)."  Svensk Exegetisk Årsbok (Swedish Exegetical Yearbook), vol. 74 (2009)