had God created another woman before eve?

Question

i heard this from somewhere that before eve, there was another woman who was created from adam himself. is this true?

Answer 1

Lilith was Adam's first wife. Believe it or not, and many don't, Lilith was not only the first woman, but the first feminist. She wanted to be on top during sex, Adam was a bit prudish and wouldn't go for it, so she dumped him.

Though I'm christian, I'm one of the christians that realize that what we know of God originally came from the Talmud and Torah, where Lilith was mentioned. We got the first 4 books of the bible from those scrolls, so I think its kinda silly to ignore the others.

Answer 2

Lilith is NOT an "invention of Feminists" (they might just like her because she wasn't Adam's slave!).

According to one source: "According to midrashic (a way of interpreting the Bible) literature, Adam's first wife was not Eve but a woman named Lilith, who was created in the first Genesis account. Only when Lilith rebelled and abandoned Adam did God create Eve, in the second account, as a replacement. In an important 13th century Kabbalah text, the Sefer ha-Zohar ("The Book of Splendour") written by the Spaniard Moses de Leon (c. 1240-1305), written by the Spaniard Moses de Leon (c. 1240-1305), it is explained that:


At the same time Jehovah created Adam, he created a woman, Lilith, who like Adam was taken from the earth. She was given to Adam as his wife. But there was a dispute between them about a matter that when it came before the judges had to be discussed behind closed doors. She spoke the unspeakable name of Jehovah and vanished."

From: http://witcombe.sbc.edu/eve-women/7evelilith.html

"All I said was, that fish was good enough for Jehovah!"
"Blasphemer! Stone him!"

I don't believe any of this, but it's an interesting fairly tale, like most of the Bible (OT and NT).

Answer 3

NO! God created Eve from a rib from Adam. They were the first two humans on earth. But Adam did lives for many years before God gave him Eve.

Answer 4

Lilith, from the talmudic

according to the story, she was the prototype that refused to obey Adam (haha... prob. was a feminist^^just teasing)

in some stories, she became affiliated with the Serpent that offered Eve the apple, and other demonic entities as well

dont listen to these christians; they just want to preserve the bible's integrity, esp. the NT

Answer 5

"The idea that God is an oversized white male with a flowing beard who sits in the sky and tallies the fall of every sparrow is ludicrous. But if by 'God' one means the set of physical laws that govern the universe, then clearly there is such a God. This God is emotionally unsatisfying... it does not make much sense to pray to the law of gravity."

Answer 6

Lilith is from the Talmudic Fall. Which is older than the Biblical Fall.

The first medieval source to depict the myth Adam and Lilith in full was the Midrash Abkier (ca. 10th century), which was followed by the Zohar and Kabblistic writings. Adam is said to be a perfect saint until he either recognizes his sin or Cain's homicide that is the cause of bringing death into the world. He then separates from holy Eve, sleeps alone and fasts for 130 years. During this time Lilith, also known as Pizna, and Naamah desired his beauty and came to him against his will. They bore him many demons and spirits called "the plagues of mankind".[50] The added explanation was that it was Adam's own sin that Lilith overcame him against his will.

Older sources do not state clearly that after Lilith's Red Sea sojourn, she returned to Adam and beget children from him. In the Zohar, however, Lilith is said to have succeeded in begetting offspring from Adam during their short lived connubium. Lilith leaves Adam in Eden as she is not a suitable helpmeet for him. She returns, later, to force herself upon him. But before doing so she attaches herself to Cain and bears him numerous spirits and demons.

Lilith appears as a night demon in Jewish lore and as a screech owl in the King James version of the Bible.

Answer 7

Jewish Kabbalistic Oral Tradition says yes. Essentially, she was independent. One day she and Adam got into a fight over who would be on top. God sent her a way, and she became the queen of She-Demons.

Answer 8

Silver, you crack me up. It's ALL mythology. It's pretty funny to be saying, oh, no, Lilith is a myth--as if Adam and Eve were real people.

Answer 9

the bible specifically says that adam and eve were the first human beings ever created-there's a "lilith" myth popular in some radical feminist movements because lilith is an example of a woman refusing to submit to male headship. there is no biblical basis whatsoever for these concepts. there is no one in the bible named lilith

Answer 10

This would be Lilith. She left Adam because he wouldn't let her be on top during sex and because she refused to submit to him. So of course she was demonized and called a child killer.