Bad Girls of the Bible: Lilith – The Woman Who Refused to Lie Down

When it comes to “bad girls,” Lilith is the shadowy figure lurking just off the page. You won’t find her in Genesis alongside Eve. She doesn’t get a genealogy, a dramatic fall, or even a name-drop. But in Jewish folklore and later interpretation, she becomes one of the most infamous women of all time: the demoness, the seductress, the baby-killer, the first wife of Adam who refused to submit. So was Lilith a bad girl? Or was she simply too powerful for the Bible’s editors to tolerate?