Did you know that Adam's first wife was Lilith?

Question

There are several places in the bible that mentions this and it is know in various countries of the tale that Lilith would come into Adam and Eve's tent and sleep with them while they were a sleep. That Lilith was displeased with Adam and flew off and lived at the dead sea and would sleep and produce angelic creatures that in return would sleep with Adam and Eve's off spring. They say that is where the giants and disfigured human beings came from. Any other ideas?

Answer 1

Adam had three wives.

The story I have always been told was that in the Torah, God created Adam and Lilith (male and female he created them). They were the same; Lilith was as dominant as Adam because she was created from the same substance as him. After Lilith left, God created Eve from Adam's rib. I'm not quite telling it right; it is better in the context of the actual story.

I encountered a story in Sandman called the Parliament of Rooks, wherein Eve tells a story about how Adam had three wives (the second never had a name, poor thing). I immediately went to research this and I did find some information backing it up in old Jewish stories.

Of course, Lilith's story is taken from the Christian Bible, but as the Torah came first I would lend it more credence. Anyway, Lilith has one or two vague references in the Bible that aren't well explained.

There are some sources for the story in the link I've provided; I won't bother retyping them. However, there's a quote I think that is particularly relevant here:

Adam had three wives, but married only once: The truth of stories is not the cold analytical truth of the scientist's laboratory. Adam married many women, for women have many aspects, but he married only once as well; that is the truth of this tale.

Answer 2

You say that there are several places the Bible says this yet you do not even say where one of those is in the Bible You may have a very hard time actually finding such a thing in the Bible for it is not but you might find you will learn the truth only by reading the Bible then you will see that for yourself, don't believe everything you hear is true, because it's not, the only way you will know the truth is if you read the Bible for yourself, but that is not where the Giants came from, still the Bible does tell us where they come from Adam and Eve did not sleep with anyone called Lylith, you are wrong in your assretions there. Have you even read the scriptures that are supposedly saying anything you mentioned here? I doubt that very much for you do not cite any verse to show this, because there are none, are you just expecting people to believe what you say?

Answer 3

sure, Lilith is maximum nicely-common because of the fact the demoness/goddess who replaced into the 1st woman, created via God on an identical time as Adam, in comparison to Eve who replaced into produced from Adam's rib. Lilith refused to place as much as Adam's will and left the backyard of Eden and replaced into consequently cursed via God. in accordance to standard opinion, this tale is "info" that she replaced into initially a goddess or a minimum of a area of the super goddess and replaced into demonized for being an autonomous woman. regrettably, what a lot of human beings overlook is that the "first eve" tale of Lilith first looked in medieval cases, interior the arguable artwork common because of the fact the Alphabet of Ben Sirah. even with the undeniable fact that Lilith herself existed until now the middle a while, all in the previous descriptions of her have been demonic. Lilith's actual origins are obscure, yet the two her sumerian and babylonian predecessors have been additionally all demonic. Lilith could be many stuff as we communicate, inclusive of yet not limited to a goddess, a place variety, and a demoness, yet initially she replaced into basically a demoness.

Answer 4

Yes...well just like our first president was actually the speaker of the emergency congress before the revolution and not George Washington. What was his name?, regretably I forgot since I learned that along time ago. I'm not being sarcastic.

- Other people believe that Jesus and Mary were the reincarnation of Adam and Eve. Anything is possible.

Answer 5

Lilith is not mentioned in the Bible,in other writings she is not human and still lives and kills babies,she was with Adam but not a wife,she would not lower herself to a human.

Answer 6

Not quite. (To the above answers as well.)

When you read through Genesis (Bereshit in Hebrew), there are two women created, one side by side with Adam, the other a couple of chapters later from his rib. This kind of variation is a normal carry-over of folk and oral traditions. But the early rabbis read it as a whole. So Adam had two wives, one of whom disappears.

They gave her a story, using a Mesopotamian goddess (Loka's wiki link will have the spelling) as the basis. Unfortunately, the general cultural misogyny of the time meant that an independent, equal woman was seen as a threat. By turning this nameless first woman into an evil version of a Mesopotamian goddess, they removed any Torah support for equal status for women and slandered a competing deity.

Times have changed. The story of Lilith has been reclaimed by Jewish women. She never was a demon or killed babies. Lilith has her roots in less misogynistic times. Let's tell those stories instead.

Answer 7

several places? list 3.

Adam was an 8th day creation. God rested on the 7th day and looked around and said I have no one to till the ground. All the other races were created on the 6th day. Lilith may have belonged to one of these races and produced many children. But none of them were fathered by the 8th day Adam.

Cain on the other hand, who's biological father was Satan, the serpent, and whose twin brother was Able, went to the land of Nod and may have fathered children from descendants of Lilith.

Answer 8

They also named an asteroid after her.

Lilith was displeased with Adam because she wanted to be on top.

Answer 9

I have another idea. It might be good if you got a Bible for yourself and checked out whether what you've been told is true or not.

The name Lilith doesn't even appear in the Christian Bible. Perhaps it's a story that's passed around, but personally, I would prefer to believe what I read in the Bible rather than myths and legends.

Answer 10

Sigh

Where or how to begin?

Ok. Lilith was NOT Adam's wife. That is pure myth and part of the reason why so many people just assume that there's more of myth than reality in reference to the Genesis account of man's origin.

People like Elaine Pagels who call themselves "biblical scholars" do as much to harm the Bible as do nutjob scientists who falsify data to produce the results they want to keep those funding grants coming. I mention Elaine Pagels specifically because I read one of her books many years ago, and after I finished reading it, I firmly concluded that it's because of interpretations like hers that so much confusion and disbelief exists in the world concerning biblical doctrine and history.

Lilith was a mythological demoness which supposedly took the form of a gorgeous woman who forced men into acts of sexual perversion before smothering them to death.

Radical theologians, next to liberal democrats, are the scum of the earth. They certainly won't lose their reward.