Ben-Ze'ev was the author of Melitzah le-Purim, a collection of mock prayers and seliḥot for Purim, which was often published with Kalonymus ben Kalonymus' celebrated Talmudical parody Masekhet Purim.[24] In 1810, he released a poem in honour of the marriage of Napoleon and Marie Louise, Duchess of Parma.[25] Ben-Ze'ev also composed the earliest-known Hebrew erotic poems in the modern era,[26][27] which circulated widely in manuscript form but were not published until the 20th century.[21] These include Shir agavim, published by Getzel Kressel [he] in 1977,[25][28] and Derekh gever be-almah, a description of sexual intercourse using combinations of fractions of biblical verses.[24]