page_title: Binding of Isaac
section_title: Possible child sacrifice
hierarchical_section_title: Binding of Isaac / Modern research / Possible child sacrifice
caption_attribution_description: English: This beautiful Missal made from parchment originates from East Anglia. It is considered a very important manuscript as it is one of the earliest examples of a Missal of an English source. Sarum Missals were books produced by the Church during the Middle Ages for celebrating Mass throughout the year
context_page_description: The Binding of Isaac Aqedat Yitzhaq, in Hebrew also simply "The Binding", הָעֲקֵידָה‎ Ha-Aqedah, -Aqeidah is a story from the Hebrew Bible found in Genesis 22. In the biblical narrative, God tells Abraham to sacrifice his son, Isaac, on Moriah. Abraham begins to comply, when a messenger from God interrupts him. Abraham then sees a ram and sacrifices it instead.
  This episode has been the focus of a great deal of commentary in traditional Jewish, Christian, and Muslim sources, as well as being addressed by modern scholarship.
context_section_description: Francesca Stavrakopoulou has speculated that it is possible that the story "contains traces of a tradition in which Abraham does sacrifice Isaac. R.E. Friedman argued that in the original E story, Abraham may have carried out the sacrifice of Isaac, but that later repugnance at the idea of a human sacrifice led the redactor of JE to add the lines in which a ram is substituted for Isaac. Likewise, Terence Fretheim wrote that the text bears no specific mark of being a polemic against child sacrifice.
caption: Abraham about to sacrifice Isaac. From a 14th-century English Missal
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