{"id":70668,"date":"2026-02-19T01:09:56","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T00:09:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/?p=70668"},"modified":"2026-02-19T01:10:01","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T00:10:01","slug":"lilith-the-first-rebellion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/lilith-the-first-rebellion\/","title":{"rendered":"Lilith: The First Rebellion"},"content":{"rendered":"The demon Lilith has wandered the Earth and featured in the mythical imaginings of writers, artists, and poets for more than four thousand years. Something menacing surrounds this contradictory figure. Her significance has changed over the course of history. What does she signify today?\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWe encounter her in Sumerian records and in both Babylonian and Mesopotamian mythology. Later, she appears in Jewish sources as Adam\u2019s first wife, before she is increasingly portrayed as a winged and seductive demon and succubus. In recent times, feminists have embraced her as a representative of independence and sexual liberation.Janet Howe Gaines, \u201cLilith: Seductress, Heroine, or Murderer?,\u201d Bible Review 17, no. 5, (2001), quoted in Judit M. Blair, De-Demonising the Old Testament: An In<div class=\"leaky_paywall_message_wrap\"><div id=\"leaky_paywall_message\">Would you like to carry on reading? <a href=\"\/en\/subscribe\/\">Get to know us for 1.-<\/a>. If you are already a subscriber, <a href=\"#\" class=\"modal-tr\" data-type=\"latl\">please log-in<\/a> to continue reading.<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The demon Lilith has wandered the Earth and featured in the mythical imaginings of writers, artists, and poets for more than four thousand years. Something menacing surrounds this contradictory figure. Her significance has changed over the course of history. What does she signify today? We encounter her in Sumerian records and in both Babylonian and Mesopotamian mythology. Later, she appears in Jewish sources as Adam\u2019s first wife, before she is increasingly portrayed as a winged and seductive demon and succubus. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22448,"featured_media":70186,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8788,9201],"tags":[11756,8798,11757],"class_list":["post-70668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-essay-en","category-religion-en","tag-ausgabe-6-2026-en","tag-deepening","tag-english-issue-8-2026"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22448"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70668"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70698,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70668\/revisions\/70698"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}