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F. Brown, S.R. Driver and C.A. Briggs, A Hebrew-English Lexicon (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1953), p. 1016. According to L. Oppenheim, date wine was added to the list of alcoholic beverages in Mesopotamia no earlier than the Neo-Babylonian period (Ancient Mesopotamia: A Portrait of a Dead Civilization [Chicago: Univ. of Chicago, 1964], p. 315).
Seymour Gitin, “Incense Altars from Ekron, Israel and Judah: Context and Typology,” Eretz-Israel 23 (1989), pp. 52*–67*; and Gitin, “Tel Miqne-Ekron in the 7th Century B.C.E.: The Impact of Economic Innovation and Foreign Cultural Influences on a Neo-Assyrian Vassal City-State,” in Recent Excavations in Israel: A View to the West, ed. Gitin, Archaeological Institute of America, Colloquia and Conference Papers 1 (Boston: 1995).
See J.D. Eisenstein, “Wine,” in The Jewish Encyclopedia (New York: Funk and Wagnalls, 1904), vol. 12, pp. 532–535; Lawrence E. Stager, “The Impact of the Sea Peoples in Canaan (1185–1050 B.C.E.),” in The Archaeology of Society in the Holy Land, ed. Thomas E. Levy (New York: Facts on File, 1995), pp. 332–348.
