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To: GunRunner
Don’t forget about Adam’s first wife, Lilith.

I have heard about a Lilith but just as an evil, mythological being. Do you believe she was real?

222 posted on 07/21/2007 3:44:19 PM PDT by Ping-Pong
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To: Ping-Pong
Lilith is a holdover from Mesopotamian mythology. She's not mentioned by name in Genesis, but she can be found in ancient Jewish texts, in the Talmud, and a few places in the Dead Sea scrolls.

Almost all of the Genesis stories are holdovers from Mesopotamian myths and legends. I don't believe anything in Genesis really occurred. At best they are allegories that attempted to describe the origins of life and the universe to illiterate Bronze age peoples. At worst they are plagiarisms from the creation myths of the Sumerians and Babylonians.

223 posted on 07/21/2007 4:21:00 PM PDT by GunRunner (Come on Fred, how long are you going to wait?)
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