Michael V. Fox (1940–2025) was an American-Israeli biblical scholar.
[1] He was the Halls-Bascom Professor Emeritus[2][3] in the Department of Hebrew and Semitic Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Fox was described as a "highly regarded authority on biblical wisdom literature.
Fox received his rabbinical ordination from Hebrew Union College, then studied Biblical Studies and Egyptology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, receiving a PhD in 1972 – the first American to earn this degree at the University.
[5] He taught in Israel for several years and in 1977 moved to Madison, Wisconsin, where he taught in the University of Wisconsin–Madison Department of Hebrew and Semitic Studies for the next 33 years (1977–2010).