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Kinneret () is the name of an important Bronze and Iron Age city situated on the northwestern shore of the Sea of Galilee, mentioned in the Old Testament and in the Aqhat Epic of Ugarit. Older Bible translations name Kinneret alternatively Kinnereth or Chinnereth. The name evolved in time to become Gennesaret and Ginosar (). Due to its prominence, the city gave its name to the lake for long periods of history, as the Sea of Kinneret, Kinnerot, Gennesaret or Ginosar, the last two mirroring the transformation of the name. "Gennesaret" is the Grecized form of Kinneret.〔Easton's Revised Bible Dictionary, "Gennesaret"〕 The name is also used for the "Plain of Gennesaret". For beauty and fertility this is called "the Paradise of Galilee". Its modern names are Plain of Ginosar (translated from Hebrew) and el-Ghuweir in Arabic. The present-day Israeli Kibbutz Ginosar derives its name from the ancient town, though it is not located on its precise site. Even more remote, on the southeastern shore of the lake, are the two settlements of Moshavat Kinneret and Kvutzat Kinneret. ==Identification and location== The site of the fortified Bronze and Iron Age city of Kinneret is at the mound known in Arabic as Tell el-'Oreimeh and in modern Hebrew as Tel Kinrot, halfway between Capernaum and Magdala.〔Lamar Williamson 1983 ''Mark'' ISBN 0804231214 pages 129-130〕 Situated on an important trade route, its elevated position meant that it also overlooked and guarded the Plain of Ginosar from its northern end. The tell is being excavated as part of a large archaeological project which is ongoing since 2002.〔http://kinneret-excavations.org/?page_id=54〕 It has the ICS Coordinates: 200805-1252830;〔Aharoni, Yochanan. ''The Land of the Bible, A Historical Geography''. The Westminster Press, Philadelphia, 1979, p. 433.〕〔(admudanan.co.il (in Hebrew) )〕〔 ca. 32.87000 N, 35.539312 E.〔(The World Coordinate Converter )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kinneret (archaeological site)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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