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Abraham, Isaac, And The State: Faith-Healing And Legal Intervention, Henry J. Abraham
Abraham, Isaac, And The State: Faith-Healing And Legal Intervention, Henry J. Abraham
University of Richmond Law Review
As a Cambridge magistrate in the England of 1960, Lady Rothschild doubtless considered herself an unlikely candidate for participation in a biblical drama reenactment. Nonetheless, on October 21, 1960, she willingly played the role of the last- minute angel of mercy in a virtual reenactment of the story of Abraham and Isaac -a story which, with unfortunate variations in the outcome for the child, seems destined to be repeated frequently in the future.