Dr. Rachmuth earned a Bachelor’s degree in computer science in 1998 from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and a Master's degree in 2004 from the Tel-Aviv University in Religious Studies. The title of his thesis was "A Great Space Being between Them: A Kohutian Reading of the Books of Samuel." In 2004, he moved to Eugene, where he completed his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature in 2010. His dissertation is entitled, "The Speculative Ethics of Modern Comedic Work: Mark Twain, Italo Svevo, Charlie Chaplin and Lenny Bruce."
Moshe's professional interests include the intersection of popular culture and ethics, Biblical Studies, psychoanalytic literary criticism, and AI-informed research.
Publications include:
Academic
- “Tragedy, Ownership, and Hospitality in Gerar: Lessons from Social Psychology,” Biblical Theology Bulletin, 54(2): 84-88, May 2024.
- “Behold-nā’, Statistics is an Effective Tool, Use It-nā’”, Journal of Semitic Studies 67(2):441-469, May 2022. (Co-written with Stephen Portnoy and Jacob Wright)
- “Observations on the Deeds of Isaac in Genesis 26,” in Semitica 63: 169-181 2021.
- “Laughter and the Death of the Comic: Charlie Chaplin’s The Circus and Limelight in Light of the Ethics of Emmanuel Levinas” in Film-Philosophy vol.19 (1): 16-32, 2015.
Creative
- “Tmurot,” (“Exchanges”) in Orot, vol 15, December 2025, Giv’atayim, Israel.
- “Kakh Nilkadety BeGufekh,” (“That How I Came to be Trapped in Your Body”) in Orot, vol 14, Summer 2024, Giv’atayim, Israel.
- “The Case of the Hugged Thief,” in So it Goes, October 2023.
- “Hamtsa’at HaTeit,” (“The Invention of the Letter Teit”) in Orot, vol 13, Winter 2023, Giv’atayim, Israel. Print.
- “More Than a Game: Ethics First, then Climate Lessons,” in Liberal Education, December 8, 2022, https://www.aacu.org/liberaleducation/articles/more-than-a-game