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Have We Found Naboth’s Vineyard at Jezreel?

By Norma Franklin, Jennie Ebeling, Philippe Guillaume, Deborah Appler

The Biblical story of Naboth and his vineyard have come to life in a recent excavation at Jezreel, where archaeologists excavated an Iron Age winery at the foot of Tel Jezreel. Here, the authors describe their discovery and explain why they believe that they have located the famed vineyard of Naboth.

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Footnotes

1.

David Ussishkin, “Jezreel: Where Jezebel Was Thrown to the Dogs,” BAR 36:04.

2.

Janet Howe Gaines, “How Bad Was Jezebel?” Bible Review, October 2000; Mary Joan Winn Leith, “First Lady Jezebel,” Bible Review, August 2004.

Endnotes

1.
Jennie Ebeling, Norma Franklin and Ian Cipin, “Jezreel Revealed in Laser Scans: A Preliminary Report of the 2012 Survey Season,” Near Eastern Archaeology 75.4 (2012), pp. 232–239.

2.

Gösta W. Ahlström, “Wine Presses and Cup Marks of the Jenin-Megiddo Survey,” Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 231 (1978), pp. 19–49.

3.

Norma Franklin, “Samaria: From the Bedrock to the Omride Palace,” Levant 36 (2004), pp. 189–202.

4.

Personal communication, members of Kibbutz Yizre’el, who currently farm these fields.