“What mean these stones” (Joshua 4:6, 21) : honouring the academic legacy of Anthony J. Frendo

Abstract

This volume celebrates Anthony Frendo’s many academic accomplishments and contains papers presented by his colleagues, students, and friends. Frendo has dedicated the largest part of his academic career—in print as well as in class—to exploring the relationship between text and artefact. Appropriately, therefore, many of the collected essays operate at this interface between disciplines while focusing on a diverse array of material, such as Hebrew, Aramaic, and Punic epigraphy, Phoenician/Punic textual and material culture, ancient Near Eastern archaeology, biblical texts, the Dead Sea Scrolls, as well as elements from Maltese archaeology, including a cuneiform inscription found at a local sanctuary at Tas-Silġ.