Riad Aziz Kassis, Ph.D. (1997) in Old Testament, University of Nottingham, is Assistant Professor at the Arab Baptist Theological Seminary, Beirut, Lebanon and Chaplain of J.L. Schneller Institute. He has published several articles and works in Arabic.

'Certainly anyone who wishes to offer a theory on the origin of the sentence literature in Proverbs will need to read and consider the book.'Andrew E. Steinmann, Review of Biblical Literature, 2000.'Kassis's pioneering survey of extensive corpora of Arabic sayings that elucidate biblical material is therefore invaluable.'P.J. Williams, Tyndale Bulletin, 2000.

Riad Aziz Kassis, Ph.D. (1997) in Old Testament, University of Nottingham, is Assistant Professor at the Arab Baptist Theological Seminary, Beirut, Lebanon and Chaplain of J.L. Schneller Institute. He has published several articles and works in Arabic.

'Certainly anyone who wishes to offer a theory on the origin of the sentence literature in Proverbs will need to read and consider the book.'Andrew E. Steinmann, Review of Biblical Literature, 2000.'Kassis's pioneering survey of extensive corpora of Arabic sayings that elucidate biblical material is therefore invaluable.'P.J. Williams, Tyndale Bulletin, 2000.