ABSTRACT
Ekron, identified in the Bible as one of the five cities of the Philistine Pentapolis ( Josh. 13: 3), lies in the Shephelah 21 miles or so south of Jerusalem. The site was not identified as the biblical city until a 1957 survey of Khirbet el-Muqanna, the modern Arabic name of the place. In 1964, the consonants of the Arabic name, muqanna, were transliterated into Hebrew resulting in the now familiar Miqne.
