Samaritan Piyyutim

Alongside rabbinic piyyutim, liturgical poetry and hymns developed among the Samaritans (see Samaritans) during the very late antique and early Byzantine periods. Samaritan hymns with known authors are extant from as early as the third century CE. The major early Samaritan liturgical poet was Markah (third–fourth century CE). Both his father, Amram Dare, and his son Naneh also composed piyyutim that remain in the Samaritan liturgy to this day. The hymns are written in Aramaic.