You are cordially invited to the launch of a Festschrift in honour of Prof. Anthony J. Frendo on Friday 5 January 2018 at 18:30 at the University of Malta Valletta Campus.
The volume, “What Mean these Stones?” (Joshua 4:6, 21): Essays on Texts, Philology, and Archaeology in Honour of Anthony J. Frendo (Leuven: Peeters, 2017), is edited by Dennis Mizzi, Nicholas C. Vella, and Martin R. Zammit. It celebrates Prof. Frendo’s many academic accomplishments and contains papers presented by his colleagues, students, and friends. Prof. 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.
The event, which is sponsored by the Faculty of Arts at the University of Malta, will be introduced by Prof. Dominic Fenech. A critical overview of the volume will be presented by Prof. Stanley Fiorini.
Light refreshments will be served afterwards.
Kindly RSVP by not later than 31 December 2017 to dennis.mizzi@um.edu.mt.
