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    Best Public Domain Translations of Each of these books

    I agree with you. Even if they are not canonical scripture, keep in mind that Jude quoted from the Book of Enoch, and several books are mentioned in the Bible that are now lost (such as the Book of the Wars of the Lord) Clearly even the writers of the Bible understood the historical value in...
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    What are the prayers said by the priest during kourbania?

    The traditional form of matagh does involve the actual sacrifice of a live animal - that is, a celebratory sacrifice, not a redemptive sacrifice. The world-saving cross alone is the occasion of our redemption. With that being said, many Armenian parishes here in America have chosen to adapt the...
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    What are the prayers said by the priest during kourbania?

    Where can I find people who do know about this practice? Or at least get good translations of these Greek prayers?
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    What are the prayers said by the priest during kourbania?

    I am trying to get a better understanding of the Greek Orthodox practice of kourbania as a ritual. Being an Armenian myself, I already more or less know about my own church's practice of matagh and how it is carried out. However, I am much less familiar with its Greek Orthodox equivalent so I...
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    What are the prayers said by the priest during kourbania?

    Well, for what it's worth, I just found the Greek Orthodox "prayer for the sacrifice of a bull" "O thou in place of thy beloved Isaac didst accept the ram from the patriarch Abraham, and didst accept and wast well pleased with the widow’s offering laid before thee. Thou hast also commanded us...
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    What are the prayers said by the priest during kourbania?

    Then why, in the late 18th century, when a monk Nicodemus denounced the kourbania as a "barbaric custom" and "vestige of ancient pagan error", was he himself accused of heresy by the village priests?
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    What are the prayers said by the priest during kourbania?

    What do you mean "embraced"? Hasn't Kourbania always been a part of Greek Orthodox Tradition?
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    What are the prayers said by the priest during kourbania?

    "The prayers said by the priest over the victim have a long tradition of attestation, dating from at least the 8th century, establishing the animal sacrifice as long-standing within Christian tradition, over at least a millennium." Kourbania - Wikipedia Have these prayers ever been translated...
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    Best Public Domain Translations of Each of these books

    Apostolic Constitutions Bk. 8. XLVII Let the following books be esteemed venerable and holy by you, both of the clergy and laity. Of the Old Covenant: the five books of Moses— Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy; one of Joshua the son of Nun, one of the Judges, one of Ruth...