The Season 2, Episode 11 episode of Sleepy Hollow is titled “Akeda” and provides a very succinct view of the show’s premise, its mythos, its worldview, its theology.
Those familiar with Jewish theology will recognize the term Akeda aka ‘Akedah, etc. as referring to the binding of Isaac. This refers to when, as recorded in Genesis 22, YHVH commands Abraham to sacrifice his son Isaac: