Meet Lilith, Adam’s First Wife that Nobody Wants to Talk About

Meet Lilith, Adam’s First Wife that Nobody Wants to Talk About

Trista - August 26, 2019

Meet Lilith, Adam’s First Wife that Nobody Wants to Talk About
Dead Sea Scrolls. www.imj.org.il

20. Dead Sea Scrolls Associate Her With Demons

During the 1940s and 1950s, 800 scroll texts washed up from the Dead Sea on the West Bank. Today these texts are known as the Dead Sea Scrolls and discuss Lilith. Not only are these scrolls biblical writings, but they also include Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek prayers, apocryphal works, and legal documents.

These scrolls associate Lilith with demons. Some parts are also used during exorcisms, which state, “And I, the Sage, sound the majesty of His beauty to terrify and confound all the spirits of destroying angels and the bastard spirits, the demons, Lilith… and those that strike suddenly…”

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