Electronic Preprints of the Final Publication of the Excavations at Early Iron Age Tel Kinrot

Nesina Grütter, Spindle Whorls and Other Textile Tools, in: Stefan Münger (Hg.), Kinneret II,2 – The Early Iron Age. Report on Finds and Findings from Tell el-ʿOrēme/Tēl Kinrōt, Excavations 1994–2008, Abhandlungen des Deutschen Palästina-Vereins, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz [Preprint 2021]. Download here.

Noé D. Michael with a contribution by Katri Saarelainen, 1. Metal Finds: Weapons, Tools, Jewelry, and Figurative Artifacts, in: Stefan Münger (Hg.), Kinneret II,2 – The Early Iron Age. Report on Finds and Findings from Tell el-ʿOrēme/Tēl Kinrōt, Excavations 1994–2008, Abhandlungen des Deutschen Palästina-Vereins, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz [Preprint 2025]. Download here.

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The following is a non-comprehensive list of scholarly publications on Tel Kinrot or Horvat Kur (compiled by Stefan Münger, based on an original list by Wolfgang Zwickel).

Michael, N.D. (2025) ‘Preprint: Metal Finds: Weapons, Tools, Jewelry, and Figurative Artifacts’, in S. Münger and J. Zangenberg (eds) Kinneret II,2: The Early Iron Age. Wiebaden: Harrassowitz (Abhandlungen des Deutschen Palästina-Vereins).
Zwickel, W. and Pakkala, J. (eds) (2024) Kinneret II/1: The Bronze Age, Iron Age II, Post-Iron Age Periods and Other Studies. Münster: Zaphon (Ägypten und Altes Testament, Band 120).
Zangenberg, J.K., Rheeder, A. and Bes, P. (2023) ‘A Piece of Heaven on Earth: Results of Ten Years of Archaeological Research by Kinneret Regional Project in the Synagogue of Ḥorvat Kur’, in J. Kamlah and M. Witte (eds) Temples, Synagogues, Churches, and Mosques: Sacred Architecture in Palestine from the Bronze Age to Medieval Times. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz (Abhandlungen des Deutschen Palästina-Vereins, 49), pp. 441–490.
Wörner, Laura and Kempendorf, Jakob (2023) ‘Der Ruinenhügel von Tabgha’, Das Heilige Land, 2023/1, pp. 36–39.
Zangenberg, J.K. (2023) ‘Village and Synagogue at Ḥorvat Kur’, in L.I. Levine, Z. Weiss, and U. Leibner (eds) Ancient Synagogues Revealed 1981-2022. Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society, pp. 40–47.
Vaknin, Y. et al. (2022) ‘Reconstructing Biblical Military Campaigns Using Geomagnetic Field Data’, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(44), p. e2209117119. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2209117119.
Münger, S. and Weinblum, L. (2022) ‘The Archaeological Documentation System DANA (Digital Archaeology and National Archives): A View from the Field’, in S. Matskevich, N. Yahalom-Mack, and Davidovich, Uri (eds) Material, Method, and Meaning: Papers in Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology in honor of Ilan Sharon. (Ägypten und Altes Testament, 110), pp. 85–97.
Grütter, N. (2021) ‘Preprint: Spindle Whorls and Other Textile Tools’, in S. Münger and J. Zangenberg (eds) Kinneret II,2: The Early Iron Age. Wiebaden: Harrassowitz (Abhandlungen des Deutschen Palästina-Vereins).
Zwickel, W. (2021) ‘Kinneret’, WiBiLex - Das wissenschaftliche Bibellexikon im Internet. Available at: https://www.bibelwissenschaft.de/wibilex/das-bibellexikon/lexikon/sachwort/anzeigen/details/kinneret/ch/97f982493d7fdcecd6311a0c59464152/ (Accessed: 23 October 2022).
Bes, P. (2021) ‘Late Roman Pontic Amphorae found in Limyra (Turkey) and Horvat Kur (Israel): Typology, Provenance, Context’, in E. Sökmen and A. Schachner (eds) Understanding Transformations. Exploring the Black Sea Region and Northern Central Anatolia in Antiquity. Istanbul: Ege Yayınları (BYZAS – Veröffentlichungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts Istanbul, 26), pp. 495–535.
Rassalle, T. (2021) Coin Deposits from Ancient Synagogues in Late Antique Palestine. PhD thesis. University of North Carolina.
Zangenberg, J.K., Lena, A. and Pappalardo, C. (2020) ‘A “New” Decorated Basalt Stone Block from the Franciscan Excavations at Magdala (Galilee)’, Liber Annuus, 70, pp. 357–384. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1484/J.LA.5.125231.
Bes, P. (2020) ‘Long-Distance Imported Pottery at Horvat Kur (Galilee, Israel): Categories and Quantities’, Rei Cretariae Romanae Fautores Acta, 46, pp. 559–567.
Zangenberg, J.K. (2019) ‘Will the Real Women Please Sit Down. Interior Space, Seating Arrangements, and Female Presence in the Byzantine Synagogue of Horvat Kur in Galilee’, in Gender and Social Norms in Ancient Israel, Early Judaism and Christianity. Texts and Material Culture. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, pp. 91–118. Available at: https://doi.org/10.13109/9783666552670.91.
Zangenberg, J.K. (2019) ‘New Observations on the “Basalt Stone Table” from Horvat Kur, Galilee’, Strata. Bulletin of the Anglo-Israel Archaeological Society, 37, pp. 95–111.
Zangenberg, J.K. (2018) ‘כפר ובית כנסת מהתקופות הרומית. והביזנטית בחורבת כור שבגליל’, Qadmoniot, 155, pp. 42–49.
Eliyahu-Behar, A. and Yahalom-Mack, N. (2018) ‘Reevaluating early iron-working skills in the Southern Levant through microstructure analysis’, Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 18, pp. 447–462. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2018.01.040.
Paukkonen, N. (2018) Eastern Alignment of Buildings in the Galilee Region – A Study on Doorway Orientation in Iron Age Tel Kinrot. MA thesis. University of Helsinki. Available at: https://helda.helsinki.fi/bitstream/handle/10138/289733/Paukkonen_Nikolai_Pro_Gradu_2018.pdf?sequence=2&isAllowed=y.
Tynjä, T. (2017) From the Field to the Publication. The Retrieval and Presentation of Pottery – A Case Study from Early Iron Age Tel Kinrot, Israel. PhD thesis. University of Helsinki. Available at: https://helda.helsinki.fi/handle/10138/175519.
Zwickel, W. (2017) ‘Economic Conditions in the Area Around the Sea of Galilee in Pre-Hellenistic Times’, Journal of Landscape Ecology, 10(3), pp. 141–153.
Münger, S. (2017) ‘Kinneret’, in Keel, O., Corpus der Stempelsiegel-Amulette aus Palästina/Israel von den Anfängen bis zur Perserzeit. Katalog Band V: Von Tell el-ʿIdham bis Kitan. Fribourg (CH)/Göttingen: Academic Press Fribourg/Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht (Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis. Series Archaeologica, 35), pp. 602–617.
Zwickel, W. (2017) Settlement History around the Sea of Galilee from the Neolithic to the Persian Period. Münster: Ugarit-Verlag (Ägypten und Altes Testament, 86).
Zangenberg, J.K. (2017) ‘The Menorah on the Mosaic Floor from the Late Roman/Early Byzantine Synagogue at Ḥorvat Kur’, Israel Exploration Journal, 67, pp. 110–126.
Münger, S. (2017) ‘Khirbet Qeiyafa – A View from Tel Kinrot in the Eastern Lower Galilee’, in S. Schroer and S. Münger (eds) Khirbet Qeiyafa in the Shephelah. Papers Presented at a Colloquium of the Swiss Society for Ancient Near Eastern Studies Held at the University of Bern, September 6, 2014. Fribourg (CH): Academic Press (Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis, 282), pp. 113–136.
Zwickel, W. (2016) ‘Zentrale Lagerstätten für Getreide als Aufgabe der königlichen Verwaltung im eisenzeitlichen Israel’, in T.R. Kämmerer, M. Kõiv, and V. Sazonov (eds) Kings, Gods and People. Establishing Monarchies in the Ancient World. Münster: Ugarit-Verlag (Alter Orient und Altes Testament), pp. 209–224.
Zangenberg, J.K. (2016) ‘Performing the Sacred in a Community Space. Observations from the 2010-2015 Kinneret Regional Project Excavations in the Byzantine Synagogue of Horvat Kur (Galilee)’, in J. Day et al. (eds) Spaces in Late Antiquity: Cultural, Theological and Archaeological Perspectives. Farnham, Surrey, England; Burlington, VT: Ashgate, pp. 166–189.
Cali Erazo, C.D. (2016) Age I Ceramics from the Site of Tel Kinrot. Sea of Galilee, Israel. MA thesis. University of Leiden.
Aviam, M. (2016) ‘Another Reading Table Base from a Galilean Synagogue: Some Comments on the Stone Table from Ḥorvat Kur’, in J. Patrich, O. Peleg-Barkat, and E. Ben-Yosef (eds) Arise, Walk Through the Land – Studies in the Archaeology and History of the Land of Israel in Memory of Yizhar Hirschfeld on the Tenth Anniversary of his Demise. Jerusalem: The Israel Exploration Society, p. 79*-82*.
Zangenberg, J.K. (2016) ‘A Basalt Stone Table from the Byzantine Synagogue at Ḥorvat Kur, Galilee: Publication and Preliminary Interpretation’, in J. Patrich, O. Peleg-Barkat, and E. Ben-Yosef (eds) Arise, Walk Through the Land – Studies in the Archaeology and History of the Land of Israel in Memory of Yizhar Hirschfeld on the Tenth Anniversary of his Demise. Jerusalem: The Israel Exploration Society, p. 61*-78*.
Zangenberg, J. et al. (2016) ‘Ḫorbat Kur, Kinneret Regional Project – 2012, 2013’, Hadashot Arkheologiyot. Excavations and Surveys in Israel, 128. Available at: http://www.hadashot-esi.org.il/Report_Detail_Eng.aspx?id=24903.
Zangenberg, J. et al. (2016) ‘חורבת כור – 2012–2013’, Hadashot Arkheologiyot. Excavations and Surveys in Israel, 128. Available at: http://www.hadashot-esi.org.il/Report_Detail.aspx?id=24903.
‘Magnificient Mosaic Menorah’ (2016) Biblical Archaeology Review, 42/1, p. 10.
Linsmeier, K.-D. (2015) ‘Kinneret – Alltag auf dem Land’, Spektrum der Wissenschaft Spezial: Archäologie • Geschichte • Kultur, 4/2015, pp. 62–66.
Routledge, B. (2015) ‘A Fishy Business: The Inland Trade in Nile Perch (Lates niloticus) in the Early Iron Age Levant’, in T.P. Harrison, E.B. Banning, and S. Klassen (eds) Walls of the Prince: Egyptian Interactions with Southwest Asia in Antiquity. Leiden; Boston: Brill, pp. 212–233.
Gilboa, A. and Namdar, D. (2015) ‘On the Beginnings of South Asian Spice Trade with the Mediterranean Region: A Review’, Radiocarbon, 57(2), pp. 265–283. Available at: https://doi.org/10.2458/azu_rc.57.18562.
Sugimoto, D.T. (2015) ‘History and Nature of Iron Age Cities in the Northeastern Sea of Galilee Region: A Preliminary Overview’, Orient. The Society for Near Eastern Studies in Japan, 50, pp. 91–108.
Gilboa, A. and Goren, Y. (2015) ‘Early Iron Age Phoenician Networks: An Optical Mineralogy Study of Phoenician Bichrome and Related Wares in Cyprus’, Ancient West & East, 14, pp. 73–110.
Zwickel, W. (2015) ‘Amos 1,1 und die Stratigraphie der eisenzeitlichen Ortslagen in Galiläa’, in V.K. Nagy and L.S. Egeresi (eds) Propheten der Epochen / Prophets during the Epochs. Festschrift für István Karasszon zum 60. Geburtstag / Studies in Honour of István Karasszon for his 60th Birthday. Münster: Ugarit Verlag (Alter Orient und Altes Testament, 426), pp. 31–49.
Neumann, F.H. et al. (2014) ‘Galilee Blooming: First Palynological and Archaeological Data from an Early Byzantine Cistern at Horvat Kur’, Environmental Archaeology, 19(1), pp. 39–54. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1179/1749631413Y.0000000004.
Weissbrod, L. et al. (2014) ‘Ancient Urban Ecology Reconstructed from Archaeozoological Remains of Small Mammals in the Near East’, PLoS ONE, 9(3), p. e91795. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0091795.
Skupinska-Lovset, I. (2014) ‘The Cult of Astarte in Bethsaida and Kinneret? Interpretation of Female Figurines Excavated on et-Tell and Tel el-Ghureimeh (sic!)’, in J.H. Ellens (ed.) Bethsaida in Archaeology, History and Ancient Culture. A Festschrift in Honor of John T. Greene. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. 63–83.
Zangenberg, J.K., Münger, S. and Rassalle, T. (2013) ‘Synagoge van Horvat Kur geeft steeds meer geheimen bloot’, Archeologiemagazine, 1/2013, pp. 40–43.
Namdar, D. et al. (2013) ‘Cinnamaldehyde in Early Iron Age Phoenician Flasks Raises the Possibility of Levantine Trade with South East Asia’, Mediterranean Archaeology and Archaeometry, 12/3, pp. 1–19.
Münger, S. (2013) ‘Early Iron Age Kinneret – Early Aramaean or Just Late Canaanite? Remarks on the Material Culture of a Border Site in Northern Palestine at the Turn of an Era’, in A. Berlejung and M.P. Streck (eds) Arameans, Chaldeans, and Arabs in Babylonia and Palestine in the First Millennium B.C. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz (Leipziger Altorientalistische Studien, 3), pp. 149–182.
Zangenberg, J. et al. (2013) ‘The Kinneret Regional Project Excavations of a Byzantine Synagogue at Horvat Kur, Galilee, 2010–2013: A Preliminary Report’, Hebrew Bible and Ancient Israel, 2(4), pp. 557–576.
Zangenberg, J. and Münger, S. (2013) ‘Antike jüdische Synagoge weiter ausgegraben’, Antike Welt, 1/2013, pp. 58–60.
Zangenberg, J. et al. (2013) ‘חורבת כור – 2011’, Hadashot Arkheologiyot – Excavations and Surveys in Israel, 125. Available at: http://www.hadashot-esi.org.il/Report_Detail.aspx?id=2230&mag_id=120.
Zangenberg, J. et al. (2013) ‘Horbat Kur - 2011’, Hadashot Arkheologiyot – Excavations and Surveys in Israel, 125. Available at: http://www.hadashot-esi.org.il/report_detail_eng.aspx?id=2230&mag_id=120.
Wyssmann, P. (2013) ‘Ein Münzdeposit aus einer spätantiken Synagoge in Galiläa’, Welt und Umwelt der Bibel, 2/2013, pp. 60–61.
Thomsen, I. (2012) ‘Flusspferde am See Gennesaret’, Welt und Umwelt der Bibel, 1/2012, pp. 60–61.