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Many Afghans sacrifice a lamb or calf at Eid-e-Qorban, which takes its name from the word qorban, meaning sacrifice.
Archive 2009-09-01 photographerno1 2009
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Many Afghans sacrifice a lamb or calf at Eid-e-Qorban, which takes its name from the word qorban, meaning sacrifice.
Archive 2009-09-01 photographerno1 2009
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The general notion of a sacrifice is in the Priestly Code that of _qorban_, in the rest of the Old
Prolegomena Julius Wellhausen 1881
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Under _qorban_ and _minha_ is included also that which the Greeks called _anathema_.
Prolegomena Julius Wellhausen 1881
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So completely was the sacrifice the affair of the community in Judaism that the voluntary _qorban_ of the individual became metamorphosed into a money payment as a contribution to the cost of the public worship (Mark vii., xii. 42 seq; Matthew xxvii.
Prolegomena Julius Wellhausen 1881
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