Book of Proverbs

In them were concealed matters coming from the wise men of our age, whilst the splendid knowledge of the expert was not even looked at by the eye of the untutored' (Haim Schwarzbaum, The Mishle Shu'alim (Fox Fables of Rabbi Berechiah Ha-Nakdan) (Kiron: Institute for Jewish and Arab Folklore Research, fashioning of the translator who presents himself as the one who decides what to transmit, evaluates the work, and negotiates with group identities is less trivial than the admittedly better known formulaic practices of scribes and Paytanim.

He continues with the Midrash Mishle, the midrash on the Book of Proverbs, which is attributed to Solomon in Jewish tradition.