Rabbi ben Ezra
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"Rabbi ben Ezra" is a poem by Robert Browning about the famous Rabbi Abraham ibn Ezra (1092Template:Ndash1167), one of the great Jewish poets and scholars of the 12th century. He wrote on grammar, astronomy, the astrolabe, and other topics.
Analysis
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It is not a biography of Abraham ibn Ezra; like all of Browning's historical poems, it is a free interpretation of the idea that ibn Ezra's life and work suggests to Browning. At the center of the poem is a theistic paradox that good might lie in the inevitability of its absence:
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History
The poem was published in Browning's Dramatis Personae in 1864.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
References
See also
- Pebble in the Sky, a science fiction novel by Isaac Asimov that mentions the poem
- "Grow Old with Me", a song by John Lennon, based in part on Browning's poem
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