About Adam and Lilith?

Question

two questions,
1)what was the name of the gospel of the story of lilith (i.e. gospel of Adam, Gospel of Lilith, ect.)

2) just for the hell of it...how many narrowminded christians believe Lilith is some imaginary creation (well, all bible **** is imaginary) made for wemons rights, lol

(seriously, people, its all folklore and fable, but to believe it fascistly is even more foolish)

and noo..i dont believe in any of this fiarytale bull.

I jsut pointed out how foolish it is to say one is true and one is fasle..their just a stupid, and both as made up, yet you side with one only because your preacher said so?....brainwashed lately?

Answer 1

Isaiah 34:14f
Wildcats shall meet with hyenas, goat-demons shall call to each other; there too Lilith shall repose, and find a place to rest. There shall the owl nest and lay and hatch and brood in its shadow.
You may be thinking of
The First Book of Adam and Eve
The Second Book of Adam and Eve
But I couldn't find the passages
There's also
The Alphabet of Ben Sirah

LILITH
female demon of Jewish mythology, originally probably the Assyrian storm demon Lilitu. In Talmudic tradition many evil attributes were given to this supposedly nocturnal creature. In Jewish folklore she is a vampirelike child-killer and the symbol of sensual lust. Of the various legends connected with her, the one making her Adam's first wife is the strongest. Lilith appears in the Walpurgis Night section of Goethe's Faust and is discussed in Bernard Shaw's Back to Methuselah.
We dunno what you've heard. You could have heard Lilith is a model for Oppressed Womanhood. You could have heard she's a succubus who gives men wet dreams. You could have heard that she's a demoness who murders babies. You could have heard that she's a goddess, the wife of Death. On the one hand there are all these (and likely other) interpretations. On the other hand there are the legends themselves, which are also quite varied, from Jewish folklore. Let's start with a paraphrase of the most familiar legend, which dates to medieval times, from the controversial work known as the Alphabet of Ben Sirah, including a few of our own interjections: When God created Adam, he was lonely, so God created Lilith from the same dust from which Adam was molded. But they quarrelled; Adam [the proverbial domineering male] wished to rule over Lilith. But Lilith [a militant feminist] was also proud and willful, claiming equality with Adam because she was created from the same dust. She left Adam and fled the Garden. God sent three angels in pursuit of Lilith. They caught her and ordered her to return to Adam. She refused, and said that she would henceforth weaken and kill little children, infants and babes. The angels overpowered her, and she promised that if the mother hung an amulet over the baby bearing the names of the three angels, she would stay away from that home. So they let her go, and God created Eve to be Adam's mate [created from Adam's rib, so that she couldn't claim equality]. And ever since, Lilith flies around the world, howling her hatred of mankind through the night, and vowing vengeance because of the shabby treatment she had received from Adam. She is also called "The Howling One." You can see how this legend could lead to various interpretations, depending on whether you think she is noble (in rebelling against male domination) or evil (in vowing vengeance against innocent babies.)But where does this legend come from? The author of Ben Sirah basically wove together three separate threads from centuries earlier works, because Lilith is a very ancient legend.

Answer 2

Lilith was the first wife of Adam, Eve was the second (or the third in some ways of thinking - points if you know who the other second was). She was created at the same time as Adam an considered herself equal to Adam. Adam didn't like her being on top so she was banished from Eden (only to copulate with the devil and is considered the true mother of demons). I think when the Church was trying to get a hold of all the "Goddess loving heathens", they got rid of the Lilith blurb, fearing that if women realized there was a woman that was made as mans' equal in the bible, they would have more power and wouldn't convert as easily.

But that's just one person's humble opinion. :)

Answer 3

Lilith has a much better story than Adam. If he hadn't scorned her by sleeping with Eve he wouldn't have had so many problems. Ei. getting kicked out of eden.

For those of you who don't know who Lilith is... She was said to have been created before Eve, but refused to "lay beneath Adam" and was therefore gotten rid of God then created a much more submissive version of women, Eve.

Answer 4

coffee_pot, would be incorrect...

"The Book of Isaiah 34:14, describing the desolation of Edom, is the only occurrence of Lilith in the Hebrew Bible:"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilith

Answer 5

There is only Adam and Eve.

The story of Lilith came about during the middle and dark ages, the crusades, the Holy Grail, etc. When all the stories of witches and warlocks and such came about.

Answer 6

((sighing))

WHY ask a question(s) when regardless the answer, the explanation, or the proven truth given you have CHOSEN to believe it all foolish fable and folklore beforehand?

I do not waste my time arguing with brick walls nor will I waste it on this. There is no good purpose in it.

Answer 7

In some Bibles, she was in Genesis. She was created at the same time as Adam out of the same dust & she was his equal. She refused to be subserviant to him & left, then God made another (Eve) out of his rib so she would. The Bible was written by men for men.

Answer 8

I know about Adam and Eve but Adam and Lilith you missed me on this one.

Answer 9

Lilith is a plant

Answer 10

I'm narrow minded because i don't believe in Lilith? well your rude for insulting me. no, i don't believe in Lilith because God created Adam and Eve...they were the ONLY 2 in the beginning.