Lilith appears in the Bible at most once, as a night creature in the ruins of Edom, and only some translations give her name. In Isaiah 34:14 the King James Version says “screech owl”. The story of Lilith as Adam’s first wife comes from the Alphabet of Ben Sira, a Jewish tale written centuries after the Bible. Scripture mentions the word in passing, in a single line of a poem about a ruined land, and then it turns the page.…

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