NONE of this is true, and the tale beloved by feminists may actually have started out as an ancient racist meme:
The story implies that when Eve was afterwards fashioned out of Adam’s rib (symbolic of her subjection to him), this was to serve as an antidote to Lilith’s short-lived attempt at egalitarianism. Here, declare the feminists matronizingly, we have a clear statement of the Rabbinic Attitude Towards Women!
There is only one slight problem with this theory: The story of Lilith is not actually found in any authentic Rabbinic tradition. Although it is repeatedly cited as a “Rabbinic legend” or a “midrash,” it is not recorded in any ancient Jewish text!
The tale of Lilith originates in a medieval work called “the Alphabet of Ben-Sira,” a work whose relationship to the conventional streams of Judaism is, to say the least, problematic.
The unknown author of this work has filled it with many elements that seem designed to upset the sensibilities of traditional Jews. …The book is consistently sounding the praises of hypocritical and insincere behaviour.
So shocking and abhorrent are some of the contents of “the Alphabet of Ben-Sira” that modern scholars have been at a loss to explain why anyone would have written such a book. … I personally would not rule out the possibility that it was actually an anti-Jewish satire…
Source: https://people.ucalgary.ca/~elsegal/Shokel/950206_Lilith.html
Now, I somewhat apologise for the fact that is innately political, but then as the post I have quoted above shows, her very existence in the modern mind is innately political, so it would be like trying to describe a fish without reference to water.
What I WILL say is that I found her to be an ancient goddess of that land, nothing to do with fantasies of rebellion, just long turned into the name of a demon by a different ethnic group.
She’s actually pretty nice. ![]()