The Vidui’s Persian Architecture
How the Yom Kippur Confession Completes the Patet–Confiteor–Vidui Triptych eFireTemple Three Confessions, One Architecture Two earlier articles in this series traced a single liturgical structure across two religions.
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How the Yom Kippur Confession Completes the Patet–Confiteor–Vidui Triptych eFireTemple Three Confessions, One Architecture Two earlier articles in this series traced a single liturgical structure across two religions. The first showed that the Catholic Confiteor — recited at the threshold of every Mass — is the Zoroastrian Patet Pashemani in Latin dress: the same threefold confession of sin in thought, word, and deed; the same triple repetition; the same breast-strike marking the gravity of repentance; the same closing appeal to the heavenly hierarchy for intercession. The second showed that Christianity’s alignment with the Pharisaic faction of Second Temple Judaism, documented in Acts 23:8, places it on the receiving end of the Persian theological inheritance — and the Pharisaic theology became Rabbinic Judaism after the destruction of the Temple in 70 CE.
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