Preliminary Report on the 2008 Season Available!

A short season report on our work at Horvat Kur and Tel Kinrot in summer 2008 was today published in the online journal «Hadashot Arkheologiyot – Excavations and Surveys in Israel (HA-ESI)». 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’s village «Gennesaret» mentioned in the New Testament. – The short answer is: no.

The long answer is by co-director Jürgen Zangenberg: “Observations on the Function, Character and Location of the New Testament Toponym Γεννησαρέτ (Mk 6:53; Mt 14:34),” in: R. Buitenwerf, H.W. Hollander and J. Tromp (eds.), Jesus, Paul and Early Christianity. Studies in Honour of Henk Jan de Jonge (NovT.S 130), Leiden: E.J. Brill 2008, 439-470.