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MICHAEL V. FOX

Jay C. and Ruth Halls-Bascom Professor of Hebrew
University of Wisconsin-Madison

1220 Linden Drive

Madison, WI 53706

mailto:mvfox@wisc.edu

(I can’t get the hyperlinks to work. I’d be happy to send pdf’s upon request.)

CURRULUM VITAE updated January 22, 2012

Contents
I. Education
II. Employment
III. Fellowships, Grants, and Honors
IV. Publications

Main field: Hebrew Bible
Secondary field: Egyptian Literature

I. EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND top

B.A. (1962) and M.A. (1963), University of Michigan (Near Eastern Studies)
Rabbinical ordination (1968): Hebrew Union College
Ph.D.(1972): Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near East)
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, 1993-99, 2010    Chairman of the Hebrew Department

Jan. 2010- Emeritus

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.

Research Professor at the University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, Union of South Africa. 2010-

Honorary Member, Society of Old Testament Study, 2011-

IV. 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. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. Reprinted 1989, 1999, 2005 (454 pp.).

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.). Reprinted 2010 Wipf & Stock.

2000
Proverbs 1-9 (Anchor Bible 18A = vol. I), Doubleday).

2001
Character and Ideology in the Book of Esther. Second edition [see 1991] with an Afterword: A Decade of Esther Scholarship. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans. Reprinted 2010 Wipf & Stock.

2004

Ecclesiastes: A Commentary. Jewish Publication Society.

2009

Proverbs 10-31 (Anchor-Yale Bible 18B = vol. II). Yale University Press.

In Progress or Commissioned
A Text-Critical Edition of Proverbs. Oxford Hebrew Bible.Oxford Univ. Press.
Job: A Commentary. OT Library. Westminster/John Knox Press.

From the Pharaohs to the Rabbis: an Intellectual History of Wisdom Literature. Brill.

B. ARTICLES, CHAPTERS, AND SHORT ITEMS top

1968
"Aspects of the Religion of the Book of Proverbs," HUCA 39, 55-69.

1971; second edition: 2003
Items in Encyclopaedia Judaica:
Agur
Ecclesiastes (2nd edition)
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.

"Tob as Covenant Terminology," BASOR 209: 41f.

1974
"The Sign of the Covenant: Circumcision in the Light of the Priestly 'ot 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.

1978
[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).

1980
"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. fuer Aegyptische 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 19:53-61.

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, NV, 1986.)

"Some Love Songs from Ancient Egypt," Wisconsin Academy Review 29:36-40.

"The Structure of the Book of Esther," I. L. Seeligmann Memorial Volume, Jerusalem, pp. 291-304.

1984
"Egypt" in Sign, Symbol, Script, ed. K. N. Schoville, pp. 23-28. Madison, WI.

"Four Love Songs from Ancient Egypt [Hebrew]Shnaton 7/8:187-214.

1985
"LXX Proverbs 3:28 and Ancient Egyptian Wisdom." HAR 8:63-69.

1986
"The meaning of hebel for Qohelet." JBL 105:409-26.

"Egyptian onomastica and biblical wisdom." VT 36:302-10.