Short Biography
| since 2012 | Lecturer in Hebrew, Aramaic and Hebrew Bible, University of Lausanne and University of Geneva |
| 2025–2026 | Privatdozent in Hebrew Bible, University of Zurich |
| 2024–2025 | Maître de Conférence, University of Strasbourg |
| 2019 | Habilitation, University of Zurich The Origins of P: Literary Profiles and Strata of the Priestly Texts in Genesis 1 – Exodus 40 (published in 2023) |
| 2009–2012 | Assistant at the chair “milieux bibliques” (Prof. Dr. T. Römer), Collège de France (Paris) |
| 2007–2009 | Scientific collaborator in the chair of Prof. Dr. Konrad Schmid, Faculty of Theology, University of Zurich |
| 2005 |
PhD, University of Bern |
| 1998–2012 | Lecturer in Biblical Hebrew, Kirchlich-theologische Hochschule Bern |
| 1998 | Advanced teaching certificate (“Höheres Lehramt,” University of Bern: history of religions, Hebrew) |
| 1995 | Ordination |
| 1994 |
Master’s degree, University of Bern (Theology and Biblical Hebrew) |
Research Focus
• Priestly writings of the Pentateuch
• Primeval history
• Books of Samuel
• Textual history of the Hebrew Bible
• Material aspects of the formation and transmission of biblical writings
• Documents in Old Aramaic, Imperial Aramaic, and Qumran Aramaic
• History of the Aramaic language
Publications
Monographs
- The Origins of P: Literary Profiles and Strata of the Priestly Texts in Genesis 1 – Exodus 40 (FAT 1/164), Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2023 (Habilitation).
- Die Erzählung von Hanna und Samuel. Textkritische und literarische Analyse von 1. Samuel 1–2 unter Berücksichtigung des Kontextes (AThANT 89), Zurich: Theologischer Verlag, 2007 (PhD thesis).
Edited volumes
- J. Hutzli and F. Neumann (eds.), Unity and Literary Profile(s) of the Priestly Texts, HeBAI. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, forthcoming 2026.
- J. Hutzli and J. Davis (eds.), The Historical Location of P: Reconsidering the Priestly Texts in Light of Material Culture and Geographical Indications (ArchB), Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2025.
- J.-M. Durand, T. Römer and J. Hutzli (eds.), Les vivants et leurs morts. Actes du colloque organisé par le Collège de France, Paris, les 14–15 avril 2010 (OBO 257), Fribourg: Academic Press / Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2013.
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Memberships
- Member of the “Institut Romand des Sciences Bibliques” at the University of Lausanne
- Member of the editorial board of Semitica, a journal published by the Institut d’études sémitiques du Collège de France
- Associated member of the research group UMR 7192 “Proche-Orient – Caucase: langues, archéologie, cultures,” Collège de France (Paris)
- Swiss Society for Ancient Near Eastern Studies (SGOA)
- Society of Biblical Literature (SBL)
- European Association of Biblical Studies (EABS)
- Société Asiatique (France)