His first teaching post was at
Illinois'
Wheaton College, where he taught
Hebrew and
Biblical studies from 1963 to 1964. Hoffner returned to Brandeis in 1964, teaching ancient Near Eastern languages as an assistant professor of Anatolian studies. He left for
Yale in 1969 to be an associate professor of
Assyriology and Hittitology, and in 1974 settled at the
University of Chicago's
Oriental Institute as a professor of Hittitology.[2] Hoffner continued teaching and serving as executive editor of the
Chicago Hittite Dictionary until his retirement in 2000. He finished his career as the John A. Wilson Professor of Hittitology Emeritus, and also served as the senior editor of the
Chicago Hittite Dictionary,[4] which he co-founded with
Hans Gustav Güterbock in 1976.[5]
Works
The Laws of the Hittites. University Microfilms, Inc., Ann Arbor, MI. 1964.
An English-Hittite Glossary (Revue Hittite et Asianique XXV/80). Paris: Klincksieck. 1967.
Alimenta Hethaeorum. American Oriental Series 55. New Haven: American Oriental Society. 1974.
Hittite Myths. Writings from the Ancient World 2. Atlanta: Scholars Press. 1990.
The Laws of the Hittites. A Critical Edition. Documenta et Monumenta Orientis Antiqui, 23. Leiden: E. J. Brill. 1997.
Harry A. Hoffner. (1998). Hittite Myths. Second Edition Revised and Augmented. Writings from the Ancient World 2. Atlanta: Scholars Press.
ISBN978-0-7885-0488-4.
Harry A. Hoffner. (July 5, 2009). Letters from the Hittite Kingdom. Writings from the Ancient World 15. Atlanta: Publisher: Society of Biblical Literature.
ISBN978-1-58983-212-1.
Harry A. Hoffner; Hans G. Güterbock., eds. (1989). The Hittite Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago. The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago.
ISBN0-918986-26-5. Multi-volume set. Volume.
Harry A. Hoffner Jr; H. Craig Melchert (2008). A Grammar of the Hittite Language. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns.
ISBN978-1-57506-119-1.