Dr. Jürg Hutzli is Lecturer in Biblical Hebrew, Aramaic, and Hebrew Bible at the Universities of Lausanne, Geneva, and Zurich. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Berne and his Habilitation from the University of Zurich. He is the author of The Origins of P: Literary Profiles and Strata of the Priestly Texts in Genesis 1 – Exodus 40 (Mohr Siebeck, 2023) and Die Erzählung von Hanna und Samuel: Textkritische und literarische Analyse von 1. Samuel 1–2 unter Berücksichtigung des Kontextes (Theologischer Verlag, 2007). He is the co-editor, with Jean-Marie Durand and Thomas Römer, of Les vivants et leurs morts: Actes du colloque organisé par le Collège de France, Paris, les 14–15 avril 2010 (Academic Press/Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2013).
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Read in light of the Sumerian King List, Adam’s genealogy (Genesis 5) reveals a gender-neutral line, conceived without a female counterpart. Noah, like the Mesopotamian flood survivor Ziusudra, emerges as the first “son,” inaugurating a new line of gendered humanity.
Read in light of the Sumerian King List, Adam’s genealogy (Genesis 5) reveals a gender-neutral line, conceived without a female counterpart. Noah, like the Mesopotamian flood survivor Ziusudra, emerges as the first “son,” inaugurating a new line of gendered humanity.