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]