The Coming of Lilith: Toward a Feminist Theology

Judith Plaskow

1979

In the beginning, the Lord God formed Adam and Lilith from the dust of the ground and breathed into their nostrils the breath of life. Created from the same source, both having been formed from the ground, they were equal in all ways. Adam, being a man, didn’t like this situation, and he looked for ways to change it. He said, “I’ll have my fi gs…

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Judith Plaskow

b. 1947

Born in New York, Judith Plaskow is a professor of religious studies at Manhattan College. A scholar of contemporary religious thought and Jewish feminism, she is an editor, lecturer, columnist, and author of several monographs. Plaskow co-founded the Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion and served as president of the American Academy of Religion.

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