What Mean these Stones? (Joshua 4:6, 21): Essays on Texts, Philology, and Archaeology in Honour of Anthony J. Frendo

This volume is dedicated to Anthony J. Frendo, professor of Near Eastern

Archaeology and Hebrew Bible at the University of Malta, and it 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-Silg.