--- Bizarro7@aol.com wrote: > In a message dated 2/15/01 4:12:13 PM Eastern
Standard Time, nydersdyner@yahoo.co.uk writes:
<< Interesting-- is there any link between this and the movement in feminist Jewish scholarship to rehabilitate Lilith?<<
I'm interested to hear this; I've been out of that loop for a while (12 years of Yeshiva was quite enough, thanks)
You poor thing :). I have to say it's not my area of speciality, but according to my spies in the Hebrew Studies Department, apparently the feminist wing have been reinterpreting her as as having demanded equality but having been thwarted by Adam, and that the evil attributed her was a manifestation of the patriarchal fear of female equality. Apparently there's an American journal of feminist Jewish studies called *Lilith,* too.
//My note here: This is not the author's invention. I did hear this stuff in the detailed commentaries during my years of study in Yeshiva and Agudah camp.
And I've heard it too, as I said, from my friends in Hebrew Studies.
dealing witih her. Some said men and babies should not be left alone in a house or Lilith might seize them.
Which is also interesting-- I was told she killed infants and women in childbirth.
ObB7: ...oh, heck. See the posts elsewhere about feminism, patriarchy and the Federation.
Fiona
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