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Curriculum vitae
MICHAEL V. FOX
Jay C. and Ruth Halls-Bascom
Professor of Hebrew
University of Wisconsin-Madison
II. Employment
III. Fellowships, Grants,
and Honors
IV. Publications
Secondary field: Egyptian Literature
I. EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND top
B.A. (1962) and M.A. (1963), University of Michigan (Ancient Near Eastern
Studies)
Rabbinical ordination (1968): Hebrew Union College
Ph.D.(1972): Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Biblical Studies)
Postdoctoral study in Egyptology at Liverpool University (1974-75) as
Leverhulme Fellow.
Languages: Hebrew (all periods), Greek, Egyptian, Ugaritic, Aramaic, Syriac,
Canaanite dialects; German, French, some Italian.
II. EMPLOYMENT top
1971-74 Instructor, then Lecturer in Bible at Haifa
University and the University of the Negev
1975-77 Lecturer in Bible and Egyptology at the Hebrew
University
1977- Assistant Professor to
Professor (1984), UW-Madison
1982-87 Chairman of the Hebrew Department
1993-99 Chairman of the Hebrew Department
III. FELLOWSHIPS,
GRANTS, AND HONORS
Wahrburg Prize for PhD research, Hebrew University, 1971-72.
Leverhulme Fellow. Liverpool University. 1974-75.
British Friends of the Hebrew University, Postdoctoral Fellowship, 1974-75
Institute for Research in the Humanities, UW: fall, 1981.
Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, research grants: 1978, 1991
UW Graduate School summer research grants: 1978 - present; several .
Vilas Associate, UW: 1988-90
Max and Frieda Weinstein-Bascom Professorship in Jewish Studies: 1990-
National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship, 1992-93
Honorary Doctorate of Hebrew Letters, Hebrew Union College, 1993
Rabbi Joseph L. Baron Faculty Achievement Award, 1996
Vice-President, Society for Biblical Literature (SBL), Midwest region, 1995-97
Research Associate and Visiting Professor (invited), Human Sciences Research
Council, South Africa, May-June 1996
Honorary Member, South African Association of Semitic Studies, 1996-
President, Society for Biblical Literature, Midwest branch, 1998-2000
National Center for the Humanities, Fellowship, offered for 1999.
Vice-President, National Association of Professors of Hebrew, 1999- 2003
Jay C. and Ruth Halls-Bascom
Professor in Hebrew Studies, 1999-
Kellett Mid-Career Award (UW), 1999
Fellow, American Academy of Jewish Research, 2000-
American Council of Learned Societies, fellowship, 2001-02
President, National Association of Professors of Hebrew, 2003-2005
George Mosse Exchange Professor (Hebrew University), fall 2006
Honoree of Festschrift: Seeking
Out the Wisdom of the Ancients, edited by Ronald L.
Troxel, Kelvin G.
Friebel, and Dennis R. Magary, Eisenbrauns, 2005.
V. PUBLICATIONS: A: Books; B: Articles C: Reviews; D: Editorial (abbreviations at end);
A. BOOKS top
1985
Love Songs from Ancient Egypt [Hebrew] Magnes Press, Jerusalem (123 pp.)
The Song of Songs and the Ancient Egyptian Love Songs.
1986
[Popular commentaries on] Qohelet and Song of Songs in Olam
Hatanakh [Hebrew], with Yaakov Klein. Tel Aviv: Revivim.
1987
Qohelet and His Contradictions. JSOTSup 71. Sheffield Academic Press.
Second printing, 1989 (383 pp.).
1991
Character and Ideology in the Book of Esther. Univ. of South Carolina
Press (317 pp).
The Redaction of the Books of Esther. SBLMS 40. Atlanta (195 pp.).
1999
A Time to Tear Down and a Time to Build Up: A Rereading of Ecclesiastes.
Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans (422 pp.).
2000
Proverbs 1-9. A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary, Anchor
Bible 18A (vol. I), Doubleday (474 pp.).
2001
Character and Ideology in the Book of Esther, second edition, with an
Afterword: A Decade of Esther Scholarship. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans.
2004
Ecclesiastes: A Commentary. Jewish Publication Society.
At
the Publisher:
Proverbs 10-31 (Anchor-Yale Bible). Yale University Press.
In
Progress:
A Text-Critical Edition of Proverbs. Oxford Hebrew Bible.
Job: A Commentary. OT Library. Westminster/John Knox Press.
The Text and Language of the Book of Job (BZAW).
B. ARTICLES, CHAPTERS, AND SHORT ITEMS
1968
"Aspects of the Religion of the Book of Proverbs," HUCA 39,
55-69.
1971
Items in Encyclopaedia Judaica:
Agur
Erman, Joh. P.A.
Blessing of Moses
Noth, Martin
Song of the Sea
1973
The Concept of Divinity in Didactic Wisdom Literature [Hebrew]. Beer Sheva
1:162-70.
"Jeremiah 2:2 and the 'Desert Ideal,'" CBQ 35: 441-50.
"Tôb as Covenant
Terminology," BASOR 209: 41f.
"The Sign of the Covenant: Circumcision in the Light of the Priestly 'ôt
Etiologies," Revue Biblique 81: 557-96.
Qohelet [Hebrew], Encyclopedia Miqra'it, vol. VII, 70-83.
1976
byyl lishney in b. Men. 65b", Leshonenu 41:75.
1977
"A Study of Antef," Orientalia 46:393-423.
"Frame-narrative and
Composition in the Book of Qohelet," HUCA 48:83-106.
[Comment on] John Donne's "A Nocturnal upon S. Lucies Day," The
Explicator 36: 24.
"Unsought Discoveries: Qohelet
7:23-8:1a," HS 19: 26-38 (with B. Porten).
"The Cairo Love Songs," JAOS 100:101-109.
"The Identification of
Quotations in Biblical Literature," ZAW 92:416-31.
"'Love' in
the Love Songs," JEA 66:181-82.
"Two Decades
of Research in Egyptian Wisdom Literature," Zeit. für Ägyptische
Sprache 107:120-35.
"The Rhetoric of Ezekiel's Vision of the Valley of the Bones," HUCA 51:1-15. (Anthologized in R. P. Gordon, ed., The Place is too Small for Us: Israelite Prophets in Recent Scholarship. Eisenbrauns, 1996.)
1981
"Job 38 and God's Rhetoric," Semeia
1982
"The `Entertainment Song' Genre of Egyptian Literature," Studies in
Egyptology, Scripta Hierosolymitana 28: 268-316.
1983
"Scholia to Canticles (i 4b, ii 4, i 4a, iv 3, v 8, v 12)," VT
33:199-206.
"Love, Passion, and Perception in the Song of Songs and the Ancient Egyptian Love Songs," JBL 102:219-28.
"Ancient Egyptian Rhetoric," Rhetorica 1:9-22. (Anthologized in The Maxims of Ptahhotpe, ed. E. Blythin; Las Vegas, Nev.,1986.)
"Some Love Songs from Ancient
"The Structure of the Book of
Esther,"
"Egypt" in Sign, Symbol, Script, ed. K. N. Schoville, pp.
23-28.
"Four Love Songs from Ancient
1985
"LXX Proverbs
1986
"The meaning of hebel for Qohelet." JBL 105:409-26.
"Egyptian onomastica and
biblical wisdom." VT 36:302-10.
"Qohelet's epistemology." HUCA 58:137-56.
"On footnotes." HS
28:6-8.
"Qohelet 1.4." JSOT 40:109.
"Aging and death in Qohelet 12:1-7: a Three-Fold Interpretation." JSOT 41:55-77.
(Anthologized in Reflecting with
Solomon: Selected Studies on the Book of Ecclesiastes, ed. R. B. Zuck [
"The religion of the Book of Esther." Judaism 39: 135-47.
"The `Soules Language' in the
Song of Songs." The Solomon Goldman Lectures, 5: 33-44.
"The Alpha Text of the Greek Esther." Textus 15: 27-54.
1991
"The redaction of the Greek Alpha Text of Esther." Sha`arei Talmon
(S. Talmon Jubilee Volume), pp. 207-20. Ed M. Fishbane and E. Tov.
1992
"Egyptian Love Songs." Anchor Bible Dictionary, II 393-95. NY:
Doubleday.
1993
"Words for Wisdom." ZAH 6: 149-69.
"Wisdom in Qohelet." In
Search of Wisdom. Essays in Memory of John Gammie, ed. Leo Perdue
(Phila.:
Annotations to the Song of Songs for The NRSV: Harper's Annotated Edition, pp. 1000-10 (NY: Harper Collins).
"Love Poetry: Hebrew".
1994
"The Pedagogy of Proverbs 2." JBL 113: 233-43.
1995
"World-Order and Ma`at: A Crooked Parallel," JANES 23: 37-48.
"The Uses of Indeterminacy." Semeia 71: 173-91.
"'Amon Again." JBL 115: 699-702.
"The Strange Woman in Septuagint Proverbs." JNSL 22: 31-44.
"The Social Location of the
Book of Proverbs." Pp. 227-39 in Texts, Temples, and Traditions
(see below).
"Ideas of Wisdom in Proverbs 1-9." JBL 116: 613-33.
Translations of the prayer of Re-Harakhti and Egyptian Love Songs in Context of Scripture, ed. Wm. Hallo (Leiden) 47-48, 125-30.
"What Happens in Qohelet 4:1-13." JHS 2, article 4.
"Who Can Learn? A Debate in Ancient Pedagogy." In Wisdom, You Are My Sister" (Essays in Honor of R. E. Murphy), ed. M. Barré. CBQMS 29. Washington, D.C. pp. 62-77.
"Words for Folly." ZAH 10: 4-17.
"What the Book of Proverbs is About." Congress Volume (Cambridge 1995), ed. J. E. Emerton. VTSup 48: 153-67.
"The Inner Structure of
Qohelet's Thought." BETL 1998: 225-38.
"Qohelet's Catalogue of Times." JNSL 24: 24-39.
"Out of Egypt: An Essay on Jan Assmann's Moses the Egyptian." Critical Rev. of Books in Religion 11: 83-96.
"Qohelet: History of Interpretation." Dictionary of Biblical "Interpretation,
2.346-54. Nashville: Abingdon.
"Erziehung--Biblisch." Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart. 2 cols.
2000
"L'amour chanté en Egypte" (trans. F. Mebarki). Le monde de la
Bible 128: 30-32.
"Wisdom in the Joseph Story." Vetus Testamentum 50: 1-16.
"Proverbs" and "Ecclesiastes," Reader's Guide to Judaism
(Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn) 153-56, 506-08.
2001
"Remarks on Proverbs Commentary." Bible and Interpretation
(www.bibleinterp.com).
"Translation and Mimesis." In Bible Translation in Context. Ed. F. W. Knobloch (Studies in Jewish History and Culture 10). Bethesda: University Press of Maryland, pp. 207-21.
Proverbs: Annotations. Oxford Jewish Study Bible. OUP.
"Wisdom Performance and the Self-Presentation of Wisdom Literature." Pp. 153-72 in Reading from Right to Left: Essays on the Hebrew Bible in honour of David J. A. Clines, ed. J. Cheryl Exum and H.G. M. Williamson (JSOTSup 480; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 153-72).
"Three Esthers." In Esther 2000. Ed. S. Crawford White and L. Greenspoon. JSOT 380. Sheffield Academic Press, pp. 50-60.
"The Rhetoric of Disjointed Proverbs," JSOT 29: 165-77.
"LXX-Proverbs as a Text-Critical Resource". Textus 22: 95-128.
"Job the Pious." ZAW 117: 351-66.
2006
“Producing A Critical Text of Proverbs: The Challenge of the Oxford Hebrew Bible.” JNSL 32: 1-22.
“Bible Scholarship and Faith-Based Study: My View.” SBL Forum, Feb. 2006.
http://www.sbl-site.org/Article.aspx?ArticleId=490.
2007
“The Epistemology of Proverbs.” JBL 126: 669-84.
"Ethics and Wisdom in the Book of Proverbs." HS 48: 75-88.
2008
“Wisdom Literature.” JPS Study Guide to the Bible. Jewish Publication Society.
"Concepts of Wisdom in the Book of Proverbs." Shalom Paul Jubilee Volume. Ed. B. Schwartz , V. Hurowitz, et al. Winona Lake: IN: Eisenbrauns, 2008 (pp.
381-98).
FORTHCOMING
"What is Wisdom?" [Hebrew]. Beer Sheva. 15 pp. MS.
“The Additions to Esther.” Introduction and Annotations, in The Lost Bible, ed. James Kugel and L. Schiffman. 14 pp.
“Ecclesiastes.” Encyclopedia Judaica, new edition. Ca. 5 pp.
“The Dating of Proverbs
10-29” [Hebrew]. 23 pp. Avi
Hurvitz Jubilee Volume.
“Esther” and
“Greek Esther.” Dictionary of Early Judaism.
"Scholarship and Faith in Bible Study," in Secularism and Biblical Studies, ed. Roland Boer (Equinox)
"The Formation of Proverbs 22:17-23:11." Welt des Orients 2008.
C. REVIEWS
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Y. Grinz, Proverbs, Stories, ... in Ancient Egypt [Hebrew], Kiryat
Sefer 51:177-179.
1979
M. Haran, Temples and Temple Service, HS 20-21, 213-215.
1982
T. Muraoka, Modern Hebrew for Bible Scholars, HS 23, 251-52.
1983
R. Alter, The Art of Biblical Narrative, Journal of Reform Judaism,
105-108.
Proceedings of the Eighth World
Congress of Jewish Studies. HS 24, 233-235.
Erik Hornung, Conceptions of God in Ancient Egypt. BA 47:187-88.
Eretz Israel 16 (H. M.
Orlinsky Festschrift). HS 25: 177-80.
Scandinavian Journal of the OT. HS 28:200f.
Compucord (Software). HS 28:218-22.
1988
D. J. Clines, The Esther Scroll. HS 29.
1989
Zeitschrift für Althebraistik. I. Band. HS 30:201.
Bo Isaksson, Studies in the Language of Qohelet (1987). JBL 108:510-12.
1990
Lisa Manniche, Sexual Life in Ancient Egypt (1987). JAOS 110:
757-58.
1992
F.-J. Steiert, Die Weisheit Israels - ein Fremdkörper im Alten Testament?(1990).
JBL 111: 134-37.
Claus Westermann, Wurzeln der Weisheit (1990). JBL 111: 529-32.
D. Snell, Twice Told Proverbs (1993). Crit. Rev. of Books in Religion
8:147-54.
S. Weeks, Early Israelite Wisdom
(1994). JAOS 116: 138ff.
H. Washington, Wealth and Poverty in the Instruction of Amenemope and the
Hebrew Proverbs (1994). JAOS 282-4.
1999
S. Weitzman, Song and Story in Biblical Narrative (1997). JQR 90:
176-79.
2000
C. G. Bartholomew, Reading Ecclesiastes (1998). Interpretation54:
195-98.
2003
Knut Martin Heim, Like Grapes of
Gold Set in Silver (2001). HS 44 (2003) 267-72.
Gerhard Tauberschmidt, Secondary Parallelism: A Study of
Translation Technique in LXX ( Atlanta, Ga.: SBL, 2004). Review of
Biblical Literature [http://www.bookreviews.org/pdf/4192_4111.pdf].
2007:
Katharine Dell, The Book of Proverbs in Social and Theological Context (Cambridge 2005). Catholic Biblical Quarterly 70: 109-10.
On line:
2005 Jacques Berlinerblau, The Secular Bible (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005) Panel Review at SBL meeting, 2005.
Assoc.
Editor, Hebrew Studies, 1982-85
Editor,
Hebrew Studies, 1986-93
Editor,
Temple in Society (Winona Lk., IN: Eisenbrauns, 1988)
Member,
Journal of Biblical Literature Editorial Board, 1991-1996, 2008-
Editor, SBL
Dissertation Series, 1994-99.
Journal of
Hebrew Scriptures Editorial Board, 1995-
Mo`ed
(journal) Editorial Board, 2002-06.
Cambridge
Bible Commentary, Editorial Board, 1999-
Essays on the
Art of the Aphorism. JSOT 29 (2004).
E.
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS top
Society for
Biblical Literature
National
Association of Professors of Hebrew (President)
Committee for
Academic Freedom and Rights, University of Wisconsin
International
Advisory Board for Academic Freedom of Bar-Ilan University.
Affiliated
Professor, Haifa University
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1. ABBREVIATIONS: top
BA = Biblical Archaeologist; BETL = Bibliotheca Ephemeridum
Theologicarum Lovaniensium; CBQ = Catholic Biblical Quarterly; HAR
= Hebrew Annual Review; HUCA = Hebrew Union College Annual;
JANES = Journal of the Ancient Near Eastern Society; JAOS Journal
of the American Oriental Society; JBL = Journal of Biblical Literature;
JHS = Journal of Hebrew Scriptures
(www.ualberta.ca/ARTS/JHS/jhs.html); JNSL = Journal of Northwest
Semitic Languages; JQR = Jewish Quarterly Review; JSOT
= Journal for the Study of the Old Testament; SBL = Society for
Biblical Literature; VT = Vetus Testamentum; VTSup = Vetus
Testamentum Supplements; ZAH = Zeitschrift für Althebraistik