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	The Alphabet of Ben Sira
		The Alphabet of Ben Sira (circa 800 CE)
		The text itself is in the style of an aggadic midrash (commentary on the Bible) and tells the story of the conception, birth, and early education of the "prophet" Ben Sira.
		Ben Sira -- or, more properly, the anonymous author of The Alphabet of Ben Sira -- could have supplied any number of stories to explain why it is Lilith who has the power over children and why the amulets with Snvi, Snsvi, and Smnglof's names deter her from harming them.
	www.geocities.com /Wellesley/Garden/4240/alphabet.html (1554 words)

	JewishEncyclopedia.com - BEN SIRA, ALPHABET OF (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The so-called second Alphabet of Ben Sira is quite different in character from the other, and belongs to a much later period.
		As his teacher began to say the alphabet, Ben Sira interrupted him by giving a proverb which corresponded to the letter about to be taught him.
		The alleged intercourse between Ben Sira and Nebuchadnezzar is the invention of the author, while the miraculous birth and early history of Ben Sira are a Jewish echo of a Christian legend, in which Jesus Ben Sira is made to play the part of Jesus of Nazareth.
	www.jewishencyclopedia.com /view.jsp?artid=654&letter=B (2505 words)

	The Alphabet of Ben-Sira -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Alphabet of Ben-Sira is an anonymously-authored (additional info and facts about medieval) medieval (A extended fictional work in prose; usually in the form of a story) novel describing the conception, birth, and education of the "prophet" (An Apocryphal book mainly of maxims (resembling Proverbs in that respect)) Ben Sira.
		Ben Sira responds with twenty-two stories (mimicking the twenty-two letters of the (A Semitic alphabet used since the 5th century BC for writing the Hebrew language (and later for writing Yiddish and Ladino)) Hebrew alphabet, thus the name) to answer the questions posed by the king.
		One of the most important passages tells the story of (In ancient Semitic folklore: a female demon who attacks children) Lilith, and it is the fifth of Ben Sira's responses to King Nebuchadnezzar.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/t/th/the_alphabet_of_ben-sira1.htm (580 words)

	Rabbinic Fantasies
		In most versions the alphabet is preceded by the fantastic and provocative story of the conception and birth of Ben Sira and his early education.
		Based on internal evidence, "The Alphabet" was composed in one of the Muslim countries sometime during the geonic period, possibly as early as the eighth century.
		The famous thirteenth-century tosafist Rabbi Peretz of Corbeil, France, used the account of Ben Sira's conception as a source to demonstrate the halakhic permissibility of artificially inseminating a woman with her father's sperm (as cited by the Taz in the Shulhan Arukh, Yoreh Deah 195:7).
	www.whiterosesgarden.com /Nature_of_Evil/lillith/LIL_bk_refs_lilith/LIL_rabbinic_fantasies.htm (491 words)

	YUTOPIA: The Alphabet Of Ben Sira
		According to the book, Ben Sira was the son of Yirmayahu and his daughter, though not through incestuous means.
		At any rate, Ben Sira was born with a full set of teeth, the intelligence of an adult, and the personality of Stewie from Family Guy.
		I thought the alphabet of ben sira is a late forgery, as opposed to an early source.
	yutopia.yucs.org /archives/000257.html (791 words)

	The Alphabet of Ben-Sira (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Alphabet of Ben-Sira is an anonymously-authored medieval novel describing the conception, birth, and education of the "prophet" Ben Sira.
		Ben Sira responds with twenty-two stories (mimicking the twenty-two letters of the Hebrew alphabet, thus the name) to answer the questions posed by the king.
		One of the most important passages tells the story of Lilith, and it is the fifth of Ben Sira's responses to King Nebuchadnezzar.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/T/The-Alphabet-of-Ben-Sira.htm (612 words)

	lilith - nf4-129
		The LAMED is the 12th letter of the Hebrew alphabet and has a numerical value of 30.
		YUD is the 10th letter of the Hebrew alphabet and has a numerical value of 10.
		It is the smallest letter in the alphabet and yet is frequently associated with the very large concept of EMANATION, the highest level in the Four World paradigm of Kabbalah.
	www.hebrewletters.com /item.cfm?itemid=2136 (351 words)

	Mystical Politics
		The Alphabet is the first place that the tale of Lilith as the first wife of Adam appears.
		The angels made a deal with her that they would not bring her back to Adam, if she agreed not to attack children who were protected by an amulet with the angels' names and forms on it.
		The Alphabet of Ben Sira is published in English translation in Rabbinic Fantasies,, edited by David Stern and Mark Mirsky, along with many other interesting works of Jewish literature, such as the "Tale of the Jerusalemite," about a man who ends up married to the daughter of Ashmedai, the king of the demons.
	mystical-politics.blogspot.com /2004/01/since-i-came-to-israel-weather-has.html (418 words)

	Nightly.Net: The Big Myth
		However, it is important to note that the Alphabet of Ben Sira is not a traditional rabbinical Jewish source.
		In the cabala she is the demon of Friday and is represented as a naked woman whose body terminates in a serpent's tail.
		While commonly refarded as the creation of the rabbis of the early Middle Ages (the first traceable mention of Lilith occurs in a 10th-century folktale called the Alphabet of Ben Sira), Lilith is in fact drawn from the lili, female demonic sprirts in Mesopotamian demonology, and known as ardat lili.
	www.nightly.net /ubb/ultimatebb.php/topic/73/373.html (1842 words)

	Alleged inconsistencies in the Bible - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Others consider the two segments to be consistent: that the first segment describes the creation of the Earth, while the second segment describes the creation of the Garden of Eden, and domesticable plants and animals.
		The story of Lilith told in the Alphabet of Ben Sira also partly stems from an attempt to harmonize these two accounts.
		Some advocates of Biblical inerrancy see two different creations here, one of which was destroyed or ended before the second.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Biblical_contradictions (3547 words)

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		Her precise origins are unknown, as is the precise nature of her story, and of course whether or not she is even human.
		The earliest known intentional appearance of Lilith in her most common myth is in the Alphabet of Ben Sira, a probable Jewish satire dating sometime between the eighth and tenth centuries CE.
		This story also notes that Lilith was made from "filth and sediment instead of pure dust [which Adam was made from]," and calls her a demoness, unlike the Alphabet, in which Ben Sira says that Lilith claimed equality with and identical origins to Adam.
	www.angelfire.com /rebellion/in_nomine/personal/lilith_paper.txt (1565 words)

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		The Babylonian demon bowls unearthed in Iraq date only back to 600 to 800 CE at the earliest, and were used for "trapping" manevolent spirits or demons — which may have been used to conjure them on a desired victim.
		Also before the Alphabet of Ben Sira, there is another Jewish folk tale about a woman who used the Ineffible name of God to fly away from sexual domination:
		The work in question is a tenth-century folktale called "The Alphabet of Ben Sira," where Lilith is presented as the first wife of Adam.
	www.geocities.com /mabcosmic/essays/lsummary.html (1878 words)

	lilith
		"It is important to note that the Alphabet of Ben Sira is not a traditional rabbinical Jewish source.
		It is not entirely certain what Ben Sira is, but it appears to be a satire or parody, possibly even an antisemitic one.
		To treat The Alphabet of Ben Sira as a reflection of traditional Jewish thought is like treating Cervantes' Don Quixote as an accurate depiction of chivalry, or Mel Brooks' Blazing Saddles as a documentary of the American West.
	user.itl.net /~whitsco/lilith.htm (1314 words)

	Liltih Fair
		In the Alphabet of Ben-Sira, Lilith is said to be Adam’s first wife, even before Eve.
		God made Adam and Lilith out of the same stuff, (he is thought to made from earth and divine breath and she from air and fire, sometimes she is thought to be created from sterile soil and night wind) and she thought of them as equals because of this.
		This is mostly because of the Alphabet of Ben-Sira, which demonstrates that she, as a strong, independent woman, was willing to give up the paradise of Eden for equality and freedom.
	www.angelfire.com /mi/wojtkiewicz/lilith.html (1525 words)

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		I should say not, considering Lilith isn't "identified" as having been Adam's wife until the writing of The Alphabet of Ben-Sira, between the 8th and 10th centuries AD.
		The purpose of the Alphabet appears to have been to parody and ridicule Jewish texts.
		There are some incidental mentions of the name Lilith in scattered writings before the Alphabet, but never in the context of her having played a part in the creation.
	www.rpg.net /forums/phorum/pf/read.php?f=51&i=2238&t=2173&v=t (162 words)

	Sirach, The Alphabet Of (International Standard Bible Encyclopedia) :: Bible Tools
		Some of the proverbs in the Alphabets are probably genuine compositions by Ben Sira and are quoted as such in the Talmud, but in their present form the Alphabets are at least as late as the 11th century AD.
		The only complete copy of the text known is in the British Museum, the copy in the Bodleian being defective.
		In his brief but excellent articles in the Jewish Encyclopedia (Ben Sira, The Alphabet of), Dr. Louis Ginzberg (New York) also gives a translation of the 22 Aramaic proverbs with useful remarks after each.
	bibletools.org /index.cfm/fuseaction/Def.show/RTD/ISBE/ID/8207 (272 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		From what I understand the Lilith story does not even originate with the ancient Hebrews but is an invention in a medieval work called "the Alphabet of Ben-Sira," a work whose relationship to the conventional streams of Judaism is doubtful.
		The unknown author of this work has filled it with many elements that seem designed to upset the sensibilities of traditional Jews.
		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.
	www.saint-mike.org /QA/FS/ViewAnswer.asp?QID=111 (622 words)

	Lilith (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		A careful consideration of a few of her most illustrative tales reveals that although one may interpret Lilith as a demonized Goddess figure, she possesses additional meaning and power as an archetypal force and one aspect of feminine nature, counterbalanced with Eve and other creational female figures.
		One account of Lilith's creation may be found within the anonymous medieval text The Alphabet of Ben Sira, cited here from a passage of Stern and Mirsky's Rabbinic Fantasies.
		The Alphabet of Ben Sira suggests her role as Adam's subordinate lover may have fueled her anger.
	www.burning-wheel.org /lilith.htm (1951 words)

	Origin of Myth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		There is no “ancient Jewish text” that tells the complete story of Lilith (Segel).
		The actual story of Lilith originated during medieval times in the work “the Alphabet of Ben-Sira” (Segel).
		“Alphabet” is seen by some as a collection of “risque folk-tales” and an “anti-Jewish satire” (Segel).
	virtual.clemson.edu /caah/women/ws301/ppt/Lilith/tsld008.htm (85 words)

	The Alphabet of BioSense
		There are twenty-two stories (mimicking the twenty-two letters of the Hebrew alphabet) to answer the questions posed by the Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar.
		Neither will you be teased with the reference to Ben Sira and the angels in charge of medicine, nor will you be subjected to the reference to Ms.
		Here now comes one of the two or three places in the Alphabet of BioSense, where you are asked to concentrate and take in the idea being shared with you.
	biosense.freeservers.com /catalog.html (19993 words)

	Genesis Rabbah (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Whereas Ben Sira has the problem center around sexuality and dominance, R. Judah b.
		Rabbi has Adam apparently disgusted by seeing the process of the woman being created "full of discharge and blood" (although this may instead be a reference to menses).
		It may well be that Ben Sira's primary contribution to the tradition is to connect the well known stories of the demoness with the midrash of the failed prototype for Eve.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /~humm/Topics/Lilith/genRab.html (263 words)

	Cainite Myth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		In fact the myth of Lilith being Adams first wife is relatively recent as far as stories of the Bible go.
		It was written in the middle ages and featured in a book called “Alphabet of Ben Sira”.
		Sorry, but all Biblical text was written WAY before the middle agesthis is not a real “Bible story” in any sense.
	www.magickalshadow.com /articles/cainite.html (269 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		And these are the mother of Ben Sira, the mother of Rav Zeira, and the mother of Rav Papah.
		Once they went into the bathhouse and there was the seed of Jewish men in the water, and they did not know from which man came the seed.
		And this son exited [her womb] with the ability to speak, and his mother was embarrassed from all creatures, that they should not say "the daughter of Jeremiah bore a son from illicit relations."
	yucs.org /~waxman/arthur/siraquote.html (343 words)

	Lilith Magazine: All You Ever Wanted to Know about Lilith!
		The first available version of the Creation story which associates the name Lilith with a "first Eve" is included in the Alphabet of Ben-Sira, a work probably written sometime in the Gaonic period (600-1000 C.E.).
		The Alphabet account is the only version of the story in which Lilith is an independent being, for she was created out of materials similar to Adam's.
		Since scholars differ widely as to the dating of Numbers Rabbah, it is difficult to determine whether the author of the Alphabet based his portrayal of Lilith as the evil spirit who harms babies on this source, or whether both drew from a common antecedent.
	www.shmoozenet.com /lilith/resources/lilithsources.shtml (1414 words)

	Lilith - Demons, Demonology, and Evil in Judaism and Christianity
		After her expulsion from Paradise, however, she slept once more with Adam, & bore the Shedim, Lilin, & Rauchin.
		The Alphabet of Ben Sira contains the first cohesive story of this.
		Another text, dating from the 13th century, the Treatise on the Left Emanation, speaks of multiple Liliths, one as the consort of Sammael and the other is the consort of Asmodeus.
	www.deliriumsrealm.com /delirium/mythology/lilith.asp (1673 words)

	The Prophet Lilith (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The NY Times has an article on a new opera simply named 'Lilith'.
		It appears to be based upon the story of Lilith as presented in the SubGenius-like medieval parody, "The Alphabet Of Ben Sira" but includes sources such as the Seder Olam.
		I really wish to see it, not just because of the subject, and not just because of the lesbian scene with Eve, but because the distinction between magick and theater is very thin, and this appears to be as much a work of powerful and beautiful ritual as singing in costumes.
	www.foolspress.com /lilith/2001/11/never-enough-lilith-opera-department.html (143 words)

	Serge Polakoff, Speaker, Author, Artist, Contemporary Symbolist (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		This simple, but eloquently-sanctioned notion has contributed to the subjugation of women throughout history and the denial of another, more equitable paradigm.
		Unlike the Bible, the Alphabet of Ben Sira, a Judaic biblical commentary written between the seventh and the tenth centuries CE, explains that Adam actually had a wife before Eve, created from the clay to be his equal.
		When making love, Lilith refused to lie beneath Adam, while he claimed the privilege to lie on top.
	www.sergepolakoff.com /Gallery1_genesis.shtml (391 words)

	AT&T Worldnet Service - Directory
		Information, pictures and links regarding Lilith, the mythological first wife of Adam, and the feminine dark side of the divine.
		As found in the 10th century manuscript "The Alphabet of Ben Sira."
		Discussing historical sources and modern views on the figure of Lilith, along with art and pictures.
	dailynews.att.net /cgi-bin/webdrill?catkey=gwd/Top/Arts/Literature/Myths_and_Folktales/Myths/Judaic (311 words)

	New Covenant Ministries: Deliverance Page: D11. Exposing Lilith: The High Queen of Demonesses (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		According to a medieval text, the Alphabet of Ben Sira:
		Apparently, she seduces men in their sleep, because she needs the semen to give birth to more demons.
		Important note: The unknown author of the Alphabet of Ben Sira has filled it with many elements that seem designed to upset the sensibilities of traditional Jews.
	www.nccg.org /deliverance/demons11-Lilith.html (2838 words)

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