Professor Dr. Corinna Körting

Biography

Corinna Körting is a Professor of Old Testament and Ancient Oriental Religious History at the University of Hamburg. She studied Protestant Theology and graduated in 1994. She completed her doctoral studies in Hamburg in 1999 and subsequently became a scientific assistant at the University of Göttingen. After earning her habilitation in Göttingen, she was a lecturer at the universities of Lüneburg and Kassel. From 2006 to 2012, she served as a professor at the Norwegian School of Theology in Oslo. Since October 1, 2012, she has been a professor at the University of Hamburg, where she also serves as a Senior Fellow at the Maimonides Centre. Körting has been active in editorial roles for several academic journals, including Journal of Biblical Literature and Vetus Testamentum, and has been involved in various advisory boards for theological publications. She is known for her work on the reception history of the Old Testament and has contributed significantly to the academic discourse surrounding Israelite cult and ritual, the Psalms, and prophetic literature from the Second Temple period.

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