David Hamidovic was awarded a doctorate in ancient history in 2003 at the Universität Paris-Sorbonne with a dissertation on the Jubilees tradition in Qumran. From 2002 to 2011, he was a lecturer and later a professor at the Université catholique de l'Ouest in Angers and the École normale supérieure de Lyon. Since 2008, he has been the research director of the team on "Histoire du judaïsme et du christianisme ancien" at the Centre Lenain de Tillemont (Paris IV Sorbonne-CNRS). He is an associate member of the Centre d'Etudes des Religions du Livre (CERL) at the Laboratoire d'Etudes sur les Monothéismes (LEM) (EPHE-CNRS).
Since 2011, David Hamidovic has been a professor of apocryphal literature and Jewish history in antiquity at the Universität Lausanne. In 2015, he was a Visiting Scholar at the Yale Divinity School. He is a member of the "New York Academy of Sciences" as well as the "Société asiatique" at the Institut de France in Paris. He is also a member of the scientific committee of the international journals "De Kemi à Birit Nâri", and "Langues et littératures arabes" as well as a member of the editorial board of the digital journal "Judaica. Neue digitale Folge".
His most important publications include "Les traditions du jubilé à Qumran" (Paris 2007), "Aux origines des messianismes juifs" (Leiden 2013), "Das endlose Ende der Welt. Historischer Essay über die Apokalyptik im alten Judentum und Christentum" (Münster u.a. 2020), and "Les manuscrits de la mer Morte" (Paris 2023).
David Hamidovic will be in Bonn from June 5 to 7, 2024, and will give a lecture on June 6 as part of the Bonner Vorlesungen zum Antiken Judentum (BoLAJ) on the topic "The emergence of apocalypticism as the construction of an expertise rather than a state of crisis".