To speak of Abraham attempting to sacrifice his beloved son is problematic from the start, for Jewish, Christian, and Islamic tradition all concur that Abraham in fact had two sons—Ishmael and Isaac—when God called for the sacrifice. Debates between Jews, Christians, and Muslims over the interpretation of the Offering have often focused on the identity of the intended victim. Jewish tradition, with roots in Genesis 22, identified Isaac as the intended victim. Christian tradition affirmed Jewish tradition with regard to the literal sacrifice, but saw in Isaac a prefiguration of Jesus' death. The Qur"an's version of the Offering (sura 37:99—113) does not name the intended victim; some Islamic interpreters understood the story to depict Isaac as the intended victim, while others understood the story to place Ishmael in that position. Jews, Muslims, and—in a different way—Christians all place their ostensible link to Abraham under the patriarchs sacrificial knife. This fact, to which I will return, opens up an intriguing possibility for thinking the gift of death—for knowing, to paraphrase Derrida, to whom to give it, but also from whom not to receive it, and why.