the University of St. Michael’s College doctoral dissertation by Raymond Van Leeuwen, Context and Meaning in Proverbs 25–27.11 These two dissertations convinced me that anthologies, such as the book of Psalms and the book of Proverbs, are intentionally arranged to give semantic depth to the individual psalm or proverb. According to this thesis, editors collected and consciously arranged songs or wisdom sayings to give them semantic depth. The notes by the late John Stek in the NIV Study Bible are