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Lilith of the bible
by Evelyn Suarez
Lilith-
a female evil spirit
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Lilith in Judaism & other cultures •Adams first wife who committed
adultery before Eve •female demon who lurks in desolate
places and attacks children
Lilith- bubbles around her are chains guarding her from attacking kids
Amulet 18-19c.Amulet 18-19c.
Lilith a Babylonian loan word Israel had accepted foreign customs by this time
•Lil meaning night
•Ardat lili "maid of night"
•Then in semitic development- lilith
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Lilith translated from Hebrew to English
•Liyliyth pronounced lee-leeth•Meaning night specter, night monster
or screech owl
Old Babylonian period (2000-16000 BC)
Sumerian or Assyrian Terra Cotta Relief 1950 BC
Diagonal view
Sumerian or Assyrian Terra Cotta Relief
Front view
Names other than Lilith
•lillake
•lilitu
•lila
•lillu
One & Only mention of Lilith in the bible
•Isaiah 34:14, the wild beast of the desert meet with wolves, & wild goats will cry to fellow: the screech owl will settle there & find her place
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Seduction=Adultery=Corruption
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Hebrew Bible/Tanach/Old Testament
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ORIGIN: God created woman to help
man•Genesis 2:20-22, , Adam had no help to meet with him. God made Adam fall into a deep sleep and made a woman from one of his ribs and brought her to him. God made one woman to man and bound them as one flesh
•Genesis 2:24, a man leaves his mother and father
to become one flesh with wife
3rd Century fresco
1540-1555
1540-1555
The Myths of Lilith & Adam
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•Lilith believed she should not help Adam because they were equal
•Lilith escaped with satan & left Adam alone & through seduction tried to get him back
•They bore demonized human babies
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Corruption through Lilith
•Affects all types’ people whether young, old, poor, rich, male or female•When corruption is in its phase it makes changes which people of all
sorts become confound in the transitions
mounts on a sleeping man
Child abduction 6B.C.
Lilith biting Eve
SeductionLeads
Infidelity
Adultery
Corruption
Affects of adultery
•adultery harms society through the problems that it brings like corruption
•it brings unfaithfulness when being faithful is expected
•no benefits for anyone, but the adulterer who is getting what they want which can be a benefit, an intrinsic type
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Adulterous correlations between religion, politics and economics
are...
Adultery inReligion
• In religion there are people who believe in fidelity and they believe that anything other than what is said by God in regards to marriage is adultery
•Lilith can come in the midst of desolation (divorce) and the children can be attacked by depression and all sorts of problems.
Adultery in Politics
• In politics if any member of any political party commits adultery they are or might bring corruption into the government, which can or will cause mistrust because of infidelity
•eg. Eliot Spitzer who committed adultery
Adultery in Economics
•the business economy is entrusted with productivity & resources and when broken, infidelity gets in the midst
•eg. Enron who were seen as an innovative company for six consecutive years until their exposure of corruption
Lilith the adulterousin recent years
•over the years many more cases of adultery are frequently seen,
•from the smallest family to the largest business corporations
Sexuality in Judaism
•because of traditional faith sexuality is sacred in all aspects of their lives
References •The Hebrew Bible in English according to the JPS 1917 Edition © 2002 Available from: http://www.mechon-
mamre.org/e/et/et0102.htm•[cited 15 April 2008]
•Humm,A., 2001. Lilith February 17, 2001 Available from: http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~humm/Topics/Lilith/ •[cited 15 April 2008]
•Lendering, J. 2008. Livius articles of ancient history Available from: http://www.livius.org/io-iz/israel/kingdom.html
•Metzger, Rev. W. 2005. First Unitarian Universalist Church of Nashville, March 6, 2005 Available from: http://www.firstuunashville.org/news/sermons/2005lilith.html
•[cited 15 April 2008]
•http://www.gotquestions.org/Lillith.html•[cited 15 April 2008]
•www.lilithgallery.com•[cited 26 April 2008]
•http://www.onelook.com/?w=lilith&ls=a•[cited 14 April 2008].
• http://www.paganwiki.org/index.php?title=Lilith• [cited 26 April 2008]
•www.thercg.org/questions/p121.a.html [cited 26 April 2008]
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilith#Etymology •[cited 15 April 2008]