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<title>Kinneret Regional Project &#x2013; News Feed</title><link>http://www.kinneret-excavations.org/index.html</link><description>Hot News about the Kinneret Regional Project</description><dc:language>en</dc:language><dc:creator>stefan.muenger@theol.unibe.ch</dc:creator><dc:rights>Copyright 2010 &#x2013; Kinneret Regional Project</dc:rights><dc:date>2010-07-05T13:45:15+02:00</dc:date><admin:generatorAgent rdf:resource="http://www.realmacsoftware.com/" />
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<lastBuildDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 15:08:30 +0200</lastBuildDate><item><title>Press Release: International Team Explores Rural Galilee and Finds Ancient Synagogue &#x2013; Kinneret Regional Project Back in the Field&#x21;</title><dc:creator>stefan.muenger@theol.unibe.ch</dc:creator><category>Horvat Kur</category><category>Tel Kinrot</category><category>Synagogue</category><category>Fieldwork</category><dc:date>2010-07-05T13:45:15+02:00</dc:date><link>http://www.kinneret-excavations.org/news.html#unique-entry-id-15</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.kinneret-excavations.org/news.html#unique-entry-id-15</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Kinneret Regional Project (KRP, an academic consortium of the Universities of Bern [Switzerland], Helsinki [Finland], Leiden [Netherlands] and Mainz [Germany]) returned to the Galilee on June 21, the 2010 campaign will last until July 16 and is sponsored by the Universities of Bern (co-director Stefan M&uuml;nger), Helsinki (co-director Juha Pakkala) and Leiden (co-director J&uuml;rgen Zangenberg). 

...This year&rsquo;s archaeological focus is the first systematic excavation on Horvat Kur, a village inhabited from the Early Roman through the Early Mediaeval periods located on a gentle hill 2 km west of the Lake of Galilee. 30 volunteers (mostly students of theology, religious studies and archaeology) and staff from the Netherlands, Finland, Switzerland, Romania, Belgium, Spain, Israel and Germany explore the material remains of village life in Galilee, a region that features very prominently in Early Christian and Rabbinic tradition. 

...In area C on the fringe of the topmost plateau of Horvat Kur, parts of two courtyards with work installations and a room full with dumped pottery from the middle of the 1st millennium CE came to light that allow fascinating insights into social and economic life in a Galilean village during this period. 

...Remains from the domestic quarter in C and the public area in A will substantially add to our knowledge of ancient rural Galilee and thus substantially contribute to solve current research questions like population growth and economic status or cultural interaction of indigenous and external influences in rural Galilee throughout the classical period. 

...KRP will henceforth also be committed to its educational field programme for international students of all disciplines to bring them into hands-on contact with the history and material culture of a region that is at the foundations of both Judaism and Christianity. 

...Kinneret Regional Project 2010 wishes to thank the Israel Antiquities Authority for granting the excavation license and various logistic support, the owner of the land on which Horvat Kur is located, the Deutscher Verein vom Heiligen Land, the Schr&ouml;ter Foundation (Neustadt/Germany), the Universities of Bern, Helsinki and Leiden for generous support and our colleagues Benjamin Arubas, Mordechai Aviam, Dina Avshalom-Gorni, Hava Katz, Uzi Leibner, Eric Meyers, Yinon Shivtiel and Yosef Stepanski for advice and encouragement.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>The 2010 Field Season Is On Its Way</title><dc:creator>stefan.muenger@theol.unibe.ch</dc:creator><category>Horvat Kur</category><category>Fieldschool</category><category>Fieldwork</category><category>Tel Kinrot</category><dc:date>2010-06-27T19:28:32+02:00</dc:date><link>http://www.kinneret-excavations.org/news.html#unique-entry-id-14</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.kinneret-excavations.org/news.html#unique-entry-id-14</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[On June 21, 2010 Kinneret Regional Project resumed its archaeological activities.   Apart from continuing to analyze finds from Bronze- and Iron Age Tel Kinrot and preparing them for eventual publication, the first systematic excavation was carried out on Horvat Kur, a village from the Hellenistic through Byzantine period.   Follow these activities on our weblog: kinneret.weblog.leidenuniv.nl.   Our team consists of 30 team-members from The Netherlands, Finland, Switzerland, Romania, Belgium, Israel and Germany.   In addition to them, 12 field archaeologists and other specialists work on the site and in the lab. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Back in the Field&#x21; &#x2014; Excavation and Survey Season at Horvat Kur and Study Season at Tel Kinrot: June 20 - July 16&#x2c; 2010</title><dc:creator>stefan.muenger@theol.unibe.ch</dc:creator><category>Horvat Kur</category><category>Tel Kinrot</category><category>Fieldschool</category><category>Fieldwork</category><dc:date>2010-01-04T23:00:00+01:00</dc:date><link>http://www.kinneret-excavations.org/news.html#unique-entry-id-13</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.kinneret-excavations.org/news.html#unique-entry-id-13</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Based upon preliminary results from the 2008 and 2009 seasons, the 2010 season of the Kinneret Regional Project will continue its archaeological activities on Horvat Kur, a small rural site inhabited between the Late Hellenistic and Early Arab periods. ...  In addition to these endeavors, a small group of specialists will continue processing data and finds from Tel Kinrot, the major site of the Project until excavations have been concluded in 2008. 

...At the end of the season team members will have a basic knowledge of relevant artefacts, their form and function, classification systems, production and finishing techniques and different excavation and survey methods and be familiar with important sites in the region.


...- who will take part in excavating the small Galilean village site at Horvat Kur and in the systematic field survey of its surroundings, want to learn how to analyze and interpret finds and data and are eager to get to know the region and its material culture. 

- who will help processing finds and data from Tel Kinrot, a neighbouring Iron Age I-site that has extensively been excavated by Kinneret Regional Project until 2008.   Now, analysis and preparation for publication are underway, so volunteers will get an insight into how archaeological publications are written and can help in that process with various supportive tasks.
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Putting the Pieces of the Puzzle Together - The 2009 Study Season</title><dc:creator>stefan.muenger@theol.unibe.ch</dc:creator><category>Horvat Kur</category><category>Tel Kinrot</category><category>Publication</category><dc:date>2009-07-05T11:00:00+02:00</dc:date><link>http://www.kinneret-excavations.org/news_files/2009#unique-entry-id-12</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.kinneret-excavations.org/news_files/2009#unique-entry-id-12</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Between June 19 and July 5, Kinneret Regional Project held its working season 2009, analyzing and processing material excavated at Tel Kinrot during recent excavations until 2008 and at Horvat Kur during the pilot excavation in 2008. 

...For the Horvat Kur team, the campaign started with taking part in a symposium on &ldquo;Graeco-Roman Galilee&rdquo;, organized by Kinneret College on the Sea of Galilee and Tel Hai Academic College between June 21-23, during which J&uuml;rgen Zangenberg presented a paper on &ldquo;Exploring Galilean Village Culture. 

...Architect B&auml;rbel Sch&ouml;neweiss-Mehring and co-director Stefan M&uuml;nger analyzed the architecture of &ldquo;Field I&rdquo; on Tel Kinrot, a massive and exceptionally well-preserved Iron Age-I domestic complex at the foot of Tel Kinrot, and produced a detailed reconstruction of the original building, including reflections about construction methods and a spatial analysis. ...  The coins had been cleaned by the laboratories of the Hebrew University before the campaign and were now identified and catalogued by co-director J&uuml;rgen Zangenberg with the help of Leiden University volunteer Petra van den Berg.   With the assistance of volunteers Tine Rassalle (MA student Leiden University) and Juho Sankamo (University of Turku/FIN) Lucas Petit and Mark van der Enden carried out ceramic and small finds analysis that will help putting Horvat Kur and surroundings on the archaeological map of Roman and Byzantine Galilee. 

...We thank the fantastic staff of Karei Deshe Guest House who again made life very pleasant for us and we are grateful to our generous sponsors that made the 2009 campaign possible: University of Berne, University of Helsinki, Leiden University and Schr&ouml;ter Stiftung (Neustadt/Germany).]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Preliminary Report on the 2008 Season Available&#x21;</title><dc:creator>stefan.muenger@theol.unibe.ch</dc:creator><category>Tel Kinrot</category><category>Horvat Kur</category><category>Fieldwork</category><category>Gennesaret</category><dc:date>2009-05-05T12:00:00+02:00</dc:date><link>http://www.kinneret-excavations.org/news_files/2009#unique-entry-id-11</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.kinneret-excavations.org/news_files/2009#unique-entry-id-11</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[A short season report on our work at Horvat Kur and Tel Kinrot in summer 2008 was today published in the online journal &laquo;Hadashot Arkheologiyot &ndash; Excavations and Surveys in Israel (HA-ESI)&raquo;.   It summarizes the most important results and discusses a few finds.   English readers find it here; a Hebrew version is available here (note that these pages are best viewed with Firefox for Windows or Mac).


BTW: We are quite often asked whether we found the fishermen&rsquo;s village &laquo;Gennesaret&raquo; mentioned in the New Testament. &ndash; The short answer is: no. 


The long answer is by co-director J&uuml;rgen Zangenberg: &ldquo;Observations on the Function, Character and Location of the New Testament Toponym &Gamma;&epsilon;&nu;&nu;&eta;&sigma;&alpha;&rho;έ&tau; (Mk 6:53; Mt 14:34),&rdquo; in: R. ...  Studies in Honour of Henk Jan de Jonge (NovT.S 130), Leiden: E.J. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>(Web)site Revamped</title><dc:creator>stefan.muenger@theol.unibe.ch</dc:creator><category>Website</category><category>Tel Kinrot</category><category>Horvat Kur</category><category>Lectures</category><dc:date>2008-12-08T22:45:00+01:00</dc:date><link>http://www.kinneret-excavations.org/news_files/2008#unique-entry-id-10</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.kinneret-excavations.org/news_files/2008#unique-entry-id-10</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Visitors may have noticed that a new section entitled &lsquo;Presentations&rsquo; has been added to this website.   There you not only find a list of past presentations and lectures we gave around the globe, but you may also have a sneak peek at a sample paper that was delivered recently at a professional conference (this part will only be updated sporadically since we don&rsquo;t want to shoot our wad in advance...). 

...In view of the image to the right, we would like to ask all visitors of Tel Kinrot to be very vigilant when visiting the site.   We invested a lot to protect the now beautifully conserved &laquo;Field I&raquo; from unwanted guests, especially donkeys.   These long-eared fellows love the shades of the high-standing walls and the soft and clean dust covering the floors. ...  So please: close the gates to the excavation field after entering and leaving the site!
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Same procedure as every year&#x2c; James...&#x21;</title><dc:creator>stefan.muenger@theol.unibe.ch</dc:creator><category>Lectures</category><category>Tel Kinrot</category><category>Horvat Kur</category><dc:date>2008-10-28T21:45:16+01:00</dc:date><link>http://www.kinneret-excavations.org/news_files/2008#unique-entry-id-9</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.kinneret-excavations.org/news_files/2008#unique-entry-id-9</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[...and we&rsquo;ll do our very best, Miss Sophie... &ndash; The directors of the Kinneret Regional Project will report on the results of the 2008 season at the Annual Meeting of the American Schools of Oriental Research, which will take place from Wednesday, 19 November until Saturday 22 November at the Westin Waterfront Hotel in Boston/USA.   The title of our paper is &ldquo;Kinneret Regional Project&mdash;The 2008 Field Season&rdquo; and the session we&rsquo;re in is scheduled for Saturday 22, from 4:15-6:15 pm (for the academic program of this congress click here). 


Additionally, we will present our project during the Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature in a session called &ldquo;Archaeological Excavations and Discoveries: Illuminating the Biblical World&rdquo; (SBL23-5) with a paper &ldquo;Kinneret: A Nonbiblical City in the Land of the Bible&rdquo; scheduled for Sunday November 23, 2008, 9:00-9:35 am (for an abstract click here and search for &lsquo;Kinneret&rsquo;).   Both papers will be presented by Stefan M&uuml;nger. &ndash; We would be happy to meet you there, if you are in the area (BTW: if you did not get the title of this post, click on the picture...!)]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Kinneret Meets Rome</title><dc:creator>stefan.muenger@theol.unibe.ch</dc:creator><category>Lectures</category><category>Tel Kinrot</category><category>Horvat Kur</category><dc:date>2008-04-21T23:11:57+02:00</dc:date><link>http://www.kinneret-excavations.org/news_files/2008#unique-entry-id-8</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.kinneret-excavations.org/news_files/2008#unique-entry-id-8</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Staff member Juhana Saukkonen (UCL London) will present a lecture on the 2007 Season of the Kinneret Regional Project at the 6ICAANE in Rome on May 8th, 2008, 11:00-11:30 am. 


6ICAANE is the sixth International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East, which is this year hosted from May 5th to May 10th, 2008 by the La Sapienza &ndash; Università di Roma.   The aim of 6ICAANE is to promote cooperation and information exchange between archaeologists working in all fields and areas of the Ancient Near East, from the Eastern Mediterranean to Iran and from Anatolia to Arabia, from prehistoric times to Alexander the Great.


The congress venue is the Museo dell&rsquo;Arte Classica in the basement of the Facoltà di Scienze Umanistiche, Piazzale A.   Moro 5. &ndash; If you happen to be in the region you should not miss...]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Online Registration Might Have Failed for Those Using Internet Explorer 6 (and Earlier)</title><dc:creator>stefan.muenger@theol.unibe.ch</dc:creator><category>Website</category><dc:date>2008-04-19T21:12:50+02:00</dc:date><link>http://www.kinneret-excavations.org/news_files/2008#unique-entry-id-7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.kinneret-excavations.org/news_files/2008#unique-entry-id-7</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Due to a bug in Internet Explorer 6 (and earlier versions) for Windows, our online application system might have failed in some rare cases.   Therefore, if you applied during the last week using this internet browser, your application may not have come through.


In case you did not get an immediate (automated) answer by email after you registered and even more, if you did not get a confirmation that we processed your application, there is a high probability that we do not know about it.


We therefore ask you to apply again &ndash; either online (we found a workaround to fix it) or via the downloadable form.   We apologize for this inconvenience.   You might, however, consider using Firefox in order to avoid such problems in future.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Photo Archive Available&#x21;</title><dc:creator>stefan.muenger@theol.unibe.ch</dc:creator><category>Website</category><dc:date>2008-04-13T17:11:25+02:00</dc:date><link>http://www.kinneret-excavations.org/news_files/2008#unique-entry-id-6</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.kinneret-excavations.org/news_files/2008#unique-entry-id-6</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[As some of you complained that the old picture gallery has been taken off the web, we uploaded again all images that were once available in the old gallery of this site.   The pictures are now in a better resolution and you may download them for your personal use. 


However, access is restricted to the participants of the 2007 season.   If you follow this link you will be prompted for a user name and a password.   The user name is '2007' and the password is the name of the donkey that visited us quite often in the field last season (well... it is not 'axel', but... ; write the password in lowercase).   Those who can't figure out the password may contact the 'Webmaster'.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>2008 Field Season Approaching...</title><dc:creator>stefan.muenger@theol.unibe.ch</dc:creator><category>Fieldwork</category><category>Horvat Kur</category><category>Tel Kinrot</category><category>Fieldschool</category><dc:date>2008-04-09T17:27:31+02:00</dc:date><link>http://www.kinneret-excavations.org/news_files/2008#unique-entry-id-5</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.kinneret-excavations.org/news_files/2008#unique-entry-id-5</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Registration for the coming field season of the Kinneret Regional Project was opened today.   We welcome students (and non-students) from all over the world to participate as team-members.   From July 6 to July 25 you will explore the fascinating world of ancient cultures on the northwestern shore of the Sea of Galilee and bring back to life the stories of the past. 

...This year, we will conduct a surface survey and soundings at Horvat Kur with remains from the Hellenistic to the Byzantine periods (3th c. ...  Furthermore, we intend to excavate (and conserve) the last remaining portion of a large domestic complex dating to the end of the Iron Age I (ca. ...  Work in the field will be accompanied by evening lectures and field trips on weekends. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Winter Activities of the Kinneret Regional Project</title><dc:creator>stefan.muenger@theol.unibe.ch</dc:creator><category>Fieldwork</category><category>Tel Kinrot</category><category>Horvat Kur</category><dc:date>2008-03-31T00:00:00+02:00</dc:date><link>http://www.kinneret-excavations.org/news_files/2008#unique-entry-id-4</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.kinneret-excavations.org/news_files/2008#unique-entry-id-4</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Fieldwork started already early this year.   At the end of January and beginning February 2008, a small team of students headed by Prof. ...  Michael Heinzelmann (Institute of Archaeology, University of Bern) conducted together with J&uuml;rgen Zangenberg, co-director of the Kinneret Regional Project, a geophysical prospection at Horvat Kur and Tel Kinrot at.   Currently, we are eagerly awaiting the results.


A few weeks later, Wolfgang Zwickel (project coordinator) visited Tel Kinrot and shot the image to the right.   The Tel is in good shape and the vegetation is flourishing.
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>2006 Season Cancelled</title><dc:creator>stefan.muenger@theol.unibe.ch</dc:creator><category>Fieldwork</category><category>Tel Kinrot</category><dc:date>2006-08-11T12:00:00+02:00</dc:date><link>http://www.kinneret-excavations.org/news_files/2006#unique-entry-id-3</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.kinneret-excavations.org/news_files/2006#unique-entry-id-3</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[At this time we would have proudly announced the 2006 field- and study-season of the German-Finnish-Swiss excavations at Tel Kinrot on the North-western shore of the Sea of Galilee, which was supposed to take place from August 6 to August 25, 2006. 24 volunteers and 22 staff-members originating from 10 different countries were curiously awaiting another exciting and enlightening dig.


All our plans, investments and hopes, however, did not materialize for obvious reasons and we had to cancel this year's expedition without substitution (the current situation does not even allow a small group of specialists working at the site).   Instead of that, we changed our publication plans and are now intensively working on the publication of Kinneret II, which is supposed to go to the printer before the next excavation season scheduled to take place in August/September 2007.   We hope that those of you working and/or living in the region are in safety.
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>The University of Mainz Publishes a Movie on Our Work at Tel Kinrot</title><dc:creator>stefan.muenger@theol.unibe.ch</dc:creator><category>Movies</category><category>Tel Kinrot</category><dc:date>2006-03-06T12:00:00+01:00</dc:date><link>http://www.kinneret-excavations.org/news_files/2006#unique-entry-id-2</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.kinneret-excavations.org/news_files/2006#unique-entry-id-2</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[The University of Mainz produces a movie about our work at Tel Kinrot (concept: Wolfgang Zwickel; camera: Markus Sauerwein; camera assistant: Ruth Scheerer; length: 20:01).   The movie documents the work of team-members and specialists during field work.   It is a real must for those in participating in the excavations.   The movie is downloadable at the University of Mainz homepage.


You may also &ndash; though in a lesser quality &ndash; view it here (Quicktime required).]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.kinneret-excavations.org/news_files/podcast_2.mov" length="53444108" type="video/quicktime"/></item><item><title>Sad News: Prof. Dr. Volkmar Fritz Passes Away on 21. August 2007</title><dc:creator>stefan.muenger@theol.unibe.ch</dc:creator><category>Obituaries</category><category>Tel Kinrot</category><dc:date>2007-08-22T09:00:00+02:00</dc:date><link>http://www.kinneret-excavations.org/news_files/2007#unique-entry-id-1</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.kinneret-excavations.org/news_files/2007#unique-entry-id-1</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[The results of that excavation became the central part of his Habilitation, which he earned from the University of Mainz in 1973, where he joined the faculty and was responsible for teaching Old Testament Studies. 

...Volkmar was committed in his research to applying archaeological data to the German tradition of biblical analysis, and as a result he made a significant contribution not only to combining the two disciplines, but also to creating a greater understanding between German and Israeli archaeologists. ...  Aharon Kempinski, he directed the excavations at Tel Masos in the Negev from 1972- 1975, which made a major contribution to our understanding of the early history of ancient Israel. 

...In 2003, he returned to Tel Kinrot for a visit (see picture; photographed by Editha Lafevre; &copy; Kinneret Regional Project), but he was already greatly weakened by the Parkinson&rsquo;s disease that had begun a few years previously.   Although he was unable to excavate again himself, he was happy in the knowledge that the work he had begun would go on in the hands of his former students from Switzerland, Germany and Finland, who are now responsible for the Kinneret Regional Project. 

...To his credit, nearly all of his excavations have been fully published &ndash; like his reports on Kinneret: Ergebnisse der Ausgrabungen auf dem Tell el-Oreme am See Gennesaret, 1982-1985 and Ergebnisse der Ausgrabungen auf der Hirbet el-M&scaron;a&scaron; (Tel Masos) 1972-1975 (co-authored with Prof. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Presentation at ASOR Annual Meeting</title><dc:creator>stefan.muenger@theol.unibe.ch</dc:creator><category>Lectures</category><category>Tel Kinrot</category><category>Horvat Kur</category><dc:date>2007-11-14T22:00:00+01:00</dc:date><link>http://www.kinneret-excavations.org/news_files/2007#unique-entry-id-0</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.kinneret-excavations.org/news_files/2007#unique-entry-id-0</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Juha Pakkala, co-director of the Kinneret Regional Project, presents on behalf of the project at the Annual Meeting of the American Schools in San Diego. 

...This is the published abstract: The paper reports on the recent results of archaeological investigations at Tel Kinrot/Tell el-Oreimeh (ancient Kinneret) and its environs undertaken by the Dutch-German-Finnish-Swiss &laquo;Kinneret Regional Project&raquo; under the auspices of the Universities of Bern, Helsinki, Leiden and Mainz. 

Kinneret &ndash; located on the northwestern shore of the Sea of Galilee (Israel) &ndash; is emerging as one of the major sites for the study of urban life in the Iron Age IB in the Southern Levant in the dawn of the first Millennium BCE.   Its material culture witnesses a lively and multilayered urban culture and shows a variety of cultural influences on the ancient population of the city.

Work concentrated in the past years on a large excavation field in the lower city with well-preserved Iron IB structures and installations.   The architecture of those areas, belonging to the main Iron Age IB phase at Tel Kinrot, was fully exposed and subsequently prepared for conservation. ]]></content:encoded></item></channel>
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