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Lilith
Lilith
(
Lîlîṯ
) is a Hebrew name for a figure in
Jewish mythology
, developed earliest in the
Babylonian Talmud
(3rd to 5th centuries CE). The character is generally thought to derive in part from a historically far earlier class of female
demons
(
līlīṯu
) in
Mesopotamian religion
, found in
cuneiform
texts of
Sumer
,
Akkad
,
Assyria
, and
Babylonia
.
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