The term “biblical poetry” covers a spectrum of varied and sometimes interfering sorts of text in verse form, which in content refer either to biblical books, episodes and materials or to parabiblical, apocryphal and legendary writings (Bible). As a specific form of sacred poetry early modern biblical poetry initially continued late-antique and medieval traditions; after the Reformation, however, its place was increasingly, as a medium for the communication of Christian virtue, at the center of moves to s…