From 1966 to 1972, de Pury served on the faculty at the University of Neuchâtel's theology department as a professor of
Biblical Hebrew. In 1975 he published his doctorate on the biblical figure
Jacob. He taught classes on the
Old Testament from 1972 to 1984. In 1984 he joined the faculty at the
University of Geneva. He taught at Geneva for thirty years and served as Dean of Theology for two years. His academic research focused on
Biblical patriarchs, the
Pentateuch, the
Book of Judges, the
Biblical canon, and the
Ketuvim. At the University of Geneva, de Pury initiated the project
The Pentateuque, which focused on the literary origins of the
Hebrew Bible. He published the articles
El Olam,
El-Roï, and
Lahaï-Roï. De Pury was also a cartoonist and published three cartoons,
Hello! in 1992,
Big Bang in 1994, and
Oh, Sorry! And Other Biblical Exclamations in 2007. De Pury served as the head of the center for
Ancient Near East Studies. He was a member of the Swiss Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences and the Racines et Sources Foundation. He was awarded
honorary doctorates from the
University of Zurich and Károli-Gáspár University, Budapest. == Death ==