Editing Ekron (section)

==Location==
[[Jerome]] wrote that Ekron was to the east of [[Ashdod|Azotus]] and [[Yavne|Iamnia]] (consistent with the modern interpretation), however he also mentioned that some equated the city with [[Straton's Tower]] at [[Caesarea Maritima]]. This may be a reference to Rabbi [[Abbahu]]'s identification of Ekron with Caesarea in [[Megillah (Talmud)|Megillah]].

[[Edward Robinson (scholar)|Robinson]] first identified the Arab village of [[Aqir]] as the site of Ekron in 1838,<ref name="SWPII">{{cite book|author=C. R. Conder and H. H. Kitchener|title=The Survey of Western Palestine|publisher=The Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund|year=1882|volume=II|location=London|page=408}}</ref><ref name="Albright22">{{cite journal |last1=Albright |first1=William F. |title=Contributions to the Historical Geography of Palestine |journal=The Annual of the American Schools of Oriental Research in Jerusalem |date=1921 |volume=2/3 |pages=1–46 |doi=10.2307/3768450 |jstor=3768450 }}</ref> and this was accepted until it was contested by [[R. A. Stewart Macalister|Macalister]] in 1913, who suggested [[Zikrin|Khirbet Dikerin]], and [[William F. Albright|Albright]] in 1922, who suggested [[Qatra]].<ref name="Albright22"/>

The identification of Ekron as Tel Miqneh was suggested by Naveh and Kallai in 1957–1958,<ref>{{cite journal|author=Seymour Gitin and Trude Dothan|year=1987|title=The Rise and Fall of Ekron of the Philistines: Recent Excavations at an Urban Border Site|journal=The Biblical Archaeologist|volume=50|issue=4|pages=197–222|doi=10.2307/3210048|jstor=3210048|s2cid=165410578}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|author=Seymour Gitin|title=Recent Excavations in Israel: Studies in Iron Age Archaeology|date=1989|publisher=Eisenbrauns|isbn=978-0-89757-049-7|editor=Seymour Gitin and William Dever|page=24|chapter=Tel Miqne-Ekron: A type-site for the inner coastal plain in the Iron Age II period}}</ref> a theory now widely accepted in light of the [[Ekron Royal Dedicatory Inscription]] found during the 1996 excavations.<ref name= DoNa97>{{cite journal |last1=Gitin |first1=Seymour |last2=Dothan |first2=Trude |last3=Naveh |first3=Joseph |title=A Royal Dedicatory Inscription from Ekron |journal=Israel Exploration Journal |date=1997 |volume=47 |issue=1/2 |pages=1–16 |jstor=27926455 }}</ref>