The Late-Comer
He will surely come with songs of joy, carrying the child, in the full assembly. My friends, wait here for the bridegroom of blood.1
He should be coming down the road. Why is the child so late? You ladies, who are charged with swaddling the child, go forth and see—
Whether his kinswomen have lingered and are moving at a slow pace, or whether the…
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While the translation is prose, the original is a poem of twenty-eight lines.
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Early Modern Literature and the Arts
1500–1750
Jewish literary creativity flourished in the early modern period, dominated by Hebrew poetry that blended religious themes with Renaissance forms.
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