Endnote 8 – Ekron of the Philistines

Concurrently, Benjamin Mazar’s identification of Eltekeh with Tel esh-Shalaf, based on the survey of that site by Jacob Kaplan, has reinforced the Miqne-Ekron identification. See Mazar, “The Cities of the Territory of Dan,” IEJ 10 (1960), pp. 65–77.