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hymns, composed in conformity with the laws of parallelism, he freed himself from all foreign influences, imitating the style of the Hebrew Bible so faithfully that his poems seem entirely a renaissance of biblical words and thoughts. They, however, provoked criticism from rabbis and were among the causes of the persecutions to which Luzzatto was later subjected. Rabbi Jacob Poppers of Frankfurt-on-the-Main thought it an unpardonable presumption to attempt to equal the "anointed of the God of Jacob".

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