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Lilith

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Biblical Character

The Resume

    Mentioned in Isaiah 34:14
    May have been a reference to a Sumerian storm demon
    In Jewish lore, is identified as Adam's first wife
    The idea that Adam had a wife before Eve may be influenced by the dual creation accounts in Genesis
    Genesis 2:22 describes God making Eve from Adam's rib, while Genesis 1:27 indicates a woman had already been made ('So God created man in His own image... male and female He created them')
    Featured in Goethe's 'Faust,' Robert Browning's poem 'Adam, Lilith and Eve' and Dante Gabriel Rossetti's painting and sonnet 'Lady Lilith'

Why she might be annoying:

    In the King Jame Bible, her name gets mistranslated as 'screech owl.'
    She left Adam after their first argument, which hardly seems like giving the relationship a fair chance.
    She told the angels dispatched to convince her to return to Eden, 'It would be no paradise to be the servant of man.'
    In some tales, she returns to seduce Adam and/or Cain, later giving birth to demons and evil spirits.
    In folk tradition, she later settled down with the demon Asmodeus as his queen.

Why she might not be annoying:

    Their first argument was over Adam's insistence that she be subservient to him, so it's not like she ran off over something trivial.
    She had a point when she told Adam, 'We are equal to each other in as much as we were both created from the earth.'
    You would think an omniscient God could have foreseen these problems arising and done something about it.
    She was the founding member of the 'First Wives' Club.'
    She gave her name to the Lilith Fair and Lilith Sternin Crane of Cheers.

Credit: C. Fishel


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Year In Review:

    For 2024, as of last weekly ranking, Out of 1 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2023, Out of 3 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 2 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 14 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 7 Votes: 85.71% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 8 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 8 Votes: 37.50% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 16 Votes: 56.25% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 3 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 13 Votes: 38.46% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 42 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2013, Out of 61 Votes: 63.93% Annoying
    In 2012, Out of 12 Votes: 41.67% Annoying
    In 2011, Out of 21 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
    In 2010, Out of 29 Votes: 62.07% Annoying
    In 2009, Out of 39 Votes: 43.59% Annoying