Christoph Uehlinger

Christoph Uehlinger is Professor em. in History of Religions/Comparative Religion at the University of Zurich, Switzerland, where he served from 2003 to 2024. Trained in biblical studies, some Egyptology, and ancient Near Eastern studies, he specializes in the study of ancient Levantine visual culture, media economies, and interregional contact and knowledge transfer. Senior editor of the Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis series, he has served as the co-ordinating director of “Stamp Seals from the Southern Levant”, a Sinergia project funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation from 2020–2024.