The Romanian Cultural Institute in Tel Aviv supports the academic research in the field of biblical archeology in Israel. For the fourth consecutive year, a team of students, coordinated by dr. Madeea Axinciuc (University of Bucharest), participate in the archaeological fieldwork of the Kinneret Regional Project (KRP). This project includes a survey- and excavation-program at Tel Kinrot and a course in archeology that will allow the students to acquire basic knowledge about artifacts, their shape and functions, classification criteria and various methods of survey and excavation.
Kinneret Regional Project is an international academic consortium devoted to better understand the cultural history of the region around the Lake of Galilee (for more information click on www.kinneret-excavations.org). In 2013 consortium partners Bern University (Switzerland), Helsinki University (Finland), Leiden University (Netherlands) and Wofford College (USA) continue the exploration of the Roman and Byzantine-period village of Horvat Kur 2 km west of the Lake, concentrating on a synagogue of the 4th / 6th c. CE. Next to the excavations analysis of finds from neighboring Bronze- and Iron Age Tel Kinrot will continue. The project is jointly directed by Dr. Stefan Munger (Bern), dr. Raimo Hakola (Helsinki), prof. dr. Byron McCane (Wofford) and prof. dr. Jurgen K. Zangenberg (Leiden). Prof. Zangenberg holds the Chair for New Testament and Early Christian Literature at the Institute for Religious Studies in Leiden, an appointment at the Leiden Faculty of Archaeology and a honorary professorship from the University of Bucharest.
The Romanian students selected in the 2013 edition of the project are: Florentina Jantea (MA - Religious Studies, Texts and Traditions); Georgian Toader (MA - Religious Studies, Texts and Traditions); Diana Adascălului (BA - Jewish Studies).
Details: www.kinneret-excavations.org
"Significant archaeological finds at Horvat Kur" by prof. dr. Jurgen K. Zangenberg
http://news.leiden.edu/news-2012/significant-finds-at-horvat-kur-excavations.html
