Abstract
The Samaritan Day of Atonement festival seems to be one of the least treated and therefore the most enigmatic Samaritan feast as it is noticed. Yom Kippur is a festival originally based on Leviticus 16 and 23:27-32 and Num 29:7-11. To compare the theological and liturgical differences between Jews and Samaritans, this chapter recalls the pre-3rd century tractate Yoma of the Mishnah in which the Jewish customs or at least the imagined or expected habits are documented. Manuscripts of the Samaritan Liturgy are like the Jewish Mahzor in that they contain only the text of the liturgy in several variants but not the description of the whole event. The chapter concludes that Samaritans did not make imagery substitutions of the ritual elements of the practice prescribed in the Torah, but concentrate on the theological core of the Day of Atonement. Keywords:Atonement; Jewish Mahzor ; Samaritans; Yom Kippur
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