Re: Lilith

In article <Uuc%e.5469$oc.311@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Zev Sero <zev@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>Nancy Lebovitz wrote:
>
>> Afaik, there's no English word for Midrash, and I'm not sure how much
>> belief Midrash was or is given.
>
>In any case, I'm not aware of her being mentioned in any of the classical
>midrashim.

Damn. I was jumping to a conclusion.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilith

It looks as though Lilith has a weirder and vaguer history than I thought--
she thinks she's a demon, but she's just a jumped-up screech owl. :-)

The version I was familiar with--Adam's first, non-subservient wife--does
turn up in a Jewish text from between the 8th and 11th centuries.

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