Selected Publications

Zwickel, W., & Pakkala, J. (Eds.). (2024). Kinneret II/1: The Bronze Age, Iron Age II, Post-Iron Age periods and Other Studies. Zaphon.

Wörner, Laura, & Kempendorf, Jakob. (2023). Der Ruinenhügel von Tabgha. Das Heilige Land, 2023/1, 36–39.

Zangenberg, J. K. (2023). Village and Synagogue at Ḥorvat Kur. In L. I. Levine, Z. Weiss, & U. Leibner (Eds.), Ancient Synagogues Revealed 1981-2022 (pp. 40–47). Israel Exploration Society.

Vaknin, Y., Shaar, R., Lipschits, O., Mazar, A., Maeir, A. M., Garfinkel, Y., Freud, L., Faust, A., Tappy, R. E., Kreimerman, I., Ganor, S., Covello-Paran, K., Sergi, O., Herzog, Z., Arav, R., Lederman, Z., Münger, S., Fantalkin, A., Gitin, S., & Ben-Yosef, E. (2022). Reconstructing Biblical Military Campaigns Using Geomagnetic Field Data. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(44), e2209117119. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2209117119

Münger, S., & Weinblum, L. (2022). The Archaeological Documentation System DANA (Digital Archaeology and National Archives): A View from the Field. In S. Matskevich, N. Yahalom-Mack, & Davidovich, Uri (Eds.), Material, Method, and Meaning: Papers in Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology in honor of Ilan Sharon (pp. 85–97).

Zwickel, W. (2021). Kinneret. In WiBiLex - Das wissenschaftliche Bibellexikon im Internet. https://www.bibelwissenschaft.de/wibilex/das-bibellexikon/lexikon/sachwort/anzeigen/details/kinneret/ch/97f982493d7fdcecd6311a0c59464152/

Bes, P. (2021). Late Roman Pontic Amphorae found in Limyra (Turkey) and Horvat Kur (Israel): Typology, Provenance, Context. In E. Sökmen & A. Schachner (Eds.), Understanding Transformations. Exploring the Black Sea Region and Northern Central Anatolia in Antiquity (pp. 495–535). Ege Yayınları.

Rassalle, T. (2021). Coin Deposits from Ancient Synagogues in Late Antique Palestine [PhD thesis]. University of North Carolina.

Bes, P. (2020). Long-Distance Imported Pottery at Horvat Kur (Galilee, Israel): Categories and Quantities. Rei Cretariae Romanae Fautores Acta, 46, 559–567.

Zangenberg, J. K. (2019). New Observations on the “Basalt Stone Table” from Horvat Kur, Galilee. Strata. Bulletin of the Anglo-Israel Archaeological Society, 37, 95–111.

Eliyahu-Behar, A., & Yahalom-Mack, N. (2018). Reevaluating early iron-working skills in the Southern Levant through microstructure analysis. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 18, 447–462. 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]. https://helda.helsinki.fi/bitstream/handle/10138/289733/Paukkonen_Nikolai_Pro_Gradu_2018.pdf?sequence=2&isAllowed=y

Zangenberg, J. K. (2018). כפר ובית כנסת מהתקופות הרומית. והביזנטית בחורבת כור שבגליל. Qadmoniot, 155, 42–49.

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]. 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), 141–153.

Münger, S. (2017). Kinneret. In O. Keel, Corpus der Stempelsiegel-Amulette aus Palästina/Israel von den Anfängen bis zur Perserzeit. Katalog Band V: Von Tell el-ʿIdham bis Kitan (pp. 602–617). Academic Press Fribourg/Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht; Münger Library: Books.

Zwickel, W. (2017). Settlement History around the Sea of Galilee from the Neolithic to the Persian Period. Ugarit-Verlag.

Zangenberg, J. K. (2017). The Menorah on the Mosaic Floor from the Late Roman/Early Byzantine Synagogue at Ḥorvat Kur. Israel Exploration Journal, 67, 110–126.

Münger, S. (2017). Khirbet Qeiyafa – A View from Tel Kinrot in the Eastern Lower Galilee. In S. Schroer & 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 (pp. 113–136). Academic Press.

Zwickel, W. (2016). Zentrale Lagerstätten für Getreide als Aufgabe der königlichen Verwaltung im eisenzeitlichen Israel. In T. R. Kämmerer, M. Kõiv, & V. Sazonov (Eds.), Kings, Gods and People. Establishing Monarchies in the Ancient World (Vol. 390/4, pp. 209–224). Ugarit-Verlag.

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, R. Hakola, M. Kahlos, & U. Tervahauta (Eds.), Spaces in Late Antiquity: Cultural, Theological and Archaeological Perspectives (pp. 166–189). Ashgate.

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, & 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 (p. 79*-82*). The Israel Exploration Society.

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, & 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 (p. 61*-78*). The Israel Exploration Society.

Zangenberg, J., Münger, S., Hakola, R., McCane, B. R., Rassalle, T., Kessi, D., Shivti’el, Y., Ballard, J., den Hertog, L., Berkheij-Dol, J., Neumann, F., Bes, P., & Tervehauta, U. (2016). Ḫorbat Kur, Kinneret Regional Project – 2012, 2013. Hadashot Arkheologiyot. Excavations and Surveys in Israel, 128. http://www.hadashot-esi.org.il/Report_Detail_Eng.aspx?id=24903

Zangenberg, J., Münger, S., Hakola, R., McCane, B. R., Rassalle, T., Kessi, D., Shivti’el, Y., Ballard, J., den Hertog, L., Berkheij-Dol, J., Neumann, F., Bes, P., & Tervehauta, U. (2016). חורבת כור – 2012–2013. Hadashot Arkheologiyot. Excavations and Surveys in Israel, 128. http://www.hadashot-esi.org.il/Report_Detail.aspx?id=24903

Magnificient Mosaic Menorah. (2016). Biblical Archaeology Review, 42/1, 10.

Linsmeier, K.-D. (2015). Kinneret – Alltag auf dem Land. Spektrum Der Wissenschaft Spezial: Archäologie • Geschichte • Kultur, 4/2015, 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, & S. Klassen (Eds.), Walls of the Prince: Egyptian Interactions with Southwest Asia in Antiquity (pp. 212–233). Brill.

Gilboa, A., & Namdar, D. (2015). On the Beginnings of South Asian Spice Trade with the Mediterranean Region: A Review. Radiocarbon, 57(2), 265–283. 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, 91–108.

Gilboa, A., & Goren, Y. (2015). Early Iron Age Phoenician Networks: An Optical Mineralogy Study of Phoenician Bichrome and Related Wares in Cyprus. Ancient West & East, 14, 73–110.

Zwickel, W. (2015). Amos 1,1 und die Stratigraphie der eisenzeitlichen Ortslagen in Galiläa. In V. K. Nagy & 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 (pp. 31–49). Ugarit Verlag.

Neumann, F. H., Zangenberg, J., Shivti’el, Y., & Münger, S. (2014). Galilee Blooming: First Palynological and Archaeological Data from an Early Byzantine Cistern at Horvat Kur. Environmental Archaeology, 19(1), 39–54. https://doi.org/10.1179/1749631413Y.0000000004

Weissbrod, L., Malkinson, D., Cucchi, T., Gadot, Y., Finkelstein, I., & Bar-Oz, G. (2014). Ancient Urban Ecology Reconstructed from Archaeozoological Remains of Small Mammals in the Near East. PLoS ONE, 9(3), e91795. 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 (pp. 63–83). Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Zangenberg, J. K., Münger, S., & Rassalle, T. (2013). Synagoge van Horvat Kur geeft steeds meer geheimen bloot. Archeologiemagazine, 1/2013, 40–43.

Namdar, D., Gilboa, A., Neumann, R., Finkelstein, I., & Weiner, S. (2013). Cinnamaldehyde in Early Iron Age Phoenician Flasks Raises the Possibility of Levantine Trade with South East Asia. Mediterranean Archaeology and Archaeometry, 12/3, 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 & M. P. Streck (Eds.), Arameans, Chaldeans, and Arabs in Babylonia and Palestine in the First Millennium B.C. (pp. 149–182). Harrassowitz.

Zangenberg, J., Münger, S., Hakola, R., & McCane, B. R. (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), 557–576.

Zangenberg, J., & Münger, S. (2013). Antike jüdische Synagoge weiter ausgegraben. Antike Welt, 1/2013, 58–60.

Zangenberg, J., Münger, S., Hakola, R., Bonnie, R., & Wyssmann, P. (2013). חורבת כור – 2011. Hadashot Arkheologiyot – Excavations and Surveys in Israel, 125. http://www.hadashot-esi.org.il/Report_Detail.aspx?id=2230&mag_id=120

Zangenberg, J., Münger, S., Hakola, R., Bonnie, R., & Wyssmann, P. (2013). Horbat Kur - 2011. Hadashot Arkheologiyot – Excavations and Surveys in Israel, 125. 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, 60–61.

Thomsen, I. (2012). Flusspferde am See Gennesaret. Welt Und Umwelt Der Bibel, 1/2012, 60–61.

Zangenberg, J., & Schröter, J. (Eds.). (2012). Bauern, Fischer und Propheten. Galiläa zur Zeit Jesu.

Berkheij-Dol, J. (2012). Sacred or Profane? Identifying Cultic Places in the Early Iron Age Southern Levant. A Study on the Pillared Courtyard-building of Tel Kinrot and its Shrine Model [MTh-thesis]. Protestantse Theologische Universiteit Kampen.

Münger, S. (2012). Chinneret (I. Archaeology; II. Hebrew Bible). In D. C. Allison & H.-J. Klauck (Eds.), Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception (Vol. 5, pp. 130–131). De Gruyter.

Münger, S. (2012). « … et on l’inhuma dans sa maison » (1 S 25,1) : Indices archéologiques au sujet de l’enterrement dans la maison d’habitation en Ancien Israël et dans ses alentours pendant le Fer I (c. 1130–950 avant notre ère). In J.-M. Durand, T. Römer, & J. Hutzli (Eds.), Les vivants et leurs morts: actes du colloque organisé par le Collège de France, Paris, les 14 - 15 avril 2010 (pp. 227–239). Acad. Press [u.a.]; Münger Library: Books.

Zangenberg, J. K. (2012). Ein Dorf auf dem Hügel – Neue Entdeckungen des Kinneret Regional Project in der Synagoge von Horvat Kur. In J. Zangenberg & J. Schröter (Eds.), Bauern, Fischer und Propheten. Galiläa zur Zeit Jesu (pp. 131–144). Philipp von Zabern.