Lilith
Sign in to savethumb|upright=1|Lilith (painting)|Lilith (1887) by John Collier Lilith (; ; also spelled Lilit, Lilitu, or Lilis) is a feminine figure in Mesopotamian and Jewish mythology. According to accounts in the Talmud she is a primordial she-demon. Based on Medieval Jewish folklore, Lilith is said to have fled from the Garden of Eden because she did not want to submit to Adam.
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Lilith is a feminine figure from Mesopotamian and Jewish mythology, described in the Talmud as a primordial she-demon. According to Medieval Jewish folklore, she is said to have fled the Garden of Eden because she refused to submit to Adam, making her a significant symbol in discussions about autonomy and resistance in religious tradition.
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- History
- Etymology
- Mesopotamian mythology
- The spirit in the tree in the Gilgamesh cycle
- The bird-footed woman in the Burney Relief
- The Arslan Tash amulets
- Lamashtu
- In the Hebrew Bible
- Hebrew text
- Greek version
- Latin Bible
- English versions
- Jewish tradition
- Dead Sea Scrolls
- Early Rabbinic literature
- Incantation bowls
- Alphabet of Ben Sira
- The influence of the rabbinic traditions
- Kabbalah
- Midrash ABKIR
- Treatise on the Left Emanation
- Zohar
- 17th-century Hebrew magical amulets
- Alsatian Krasmesser (16th to 20th century)
- Greco-Roman mythology
- In Mandaeism
- In Arabic mythology
- In Western media
- In German media
- In English media
- In American media
- In Western esotericism
- See also
- Notes
- References
- Cited sources
- Further reading
- External links
thumb|upright=1|Lilith (painting)|Lilith (1887) by John Collier Lilith (; ; also spelled Lilit, Lilitu, or Lilis) is a feminine figure in Mesopotamian and Jewish mythology. According to accounts in the Talmud she is a primordial she-demon. Based on Medieval Jewish folklore, Lilith is said to have fled from the Garden of Eden because she did not want to submit to Adam.
Lilith does not appear in the Hebrew Bible or any other biblical source, although her name is derived from a single word in the Book of Isaiah, the meaning of which is debated by scholars. She first appears in Mandaean and Jewish sources from late antiquity (500 AD onward), in historiolas – incantations that incorporate a short mythic story – that give partial descriptions of her. She is mentioned in the Babylonian Talmud (at Eruvin 100b, Niddah 24b, Shabbat 151b, Bava Batra 73a), and in the Zohar § Leviticus 19a as "a hot fiery female who first cohabited with man". Some rabbinic authorities, including Maimonides and Menachem Meiri, reject the existence of Lilith.