Books
Dame, Enid, Lilly Rivlin, and Henny Wenkart, eds. Which Lilith? Feminist Writers Re-create the World’s First Woman. Introduction by Naomi Wolf. Northvale, NJ: 1998.
Montgomery, James. Aramaic Incantation Texts from Nippur. Philadelphia: 1913.
Naveh, Joseph, and Shaul Shaked. Amulets and Magic Bowls: Aramaic Incantations of Late Antiquity. Second edition. Jerusalem: 1987.
Naveh, Joseph, and Shaul Shaked. Magic Spells and Formulae. Jerusalem: 1993.
Patai, Raphael. The Hebrew Goddess. 1967. Third enlarged edition. Detroit: 1990. Chapter Seven is devoted to Lilith.
Scholem, Gershom. On the Kabbalah and its Symbolism. Trans. Ralph Manheim. New York: 1965.
Scholem, Gershom. On the Mystical Shape of the Godhead: Basic Concepts in the Kabbalah. New York: 1991.
Schrire, Theodore. Hebrew Amulets: Their Decipherment and Interpretation. London: 1966.
Tishby, Isaiah. The Wisdom of the Zohar. 3 vols. Trans. David Goldstein. Oxford: 1989.
Trachtenberg, Joshua. Jewish Magic and Superstition. 1939. Reprint, N.Y.: 1970.
Yassif, Eli. The Hebrew Folktale: History, Genre, Meaning. Trans. Jacqueline S. Teitelbaum. Bloomington: 1999.
Yassif, Eli. Tales of Ben Sira in the Middle Ages (Hebrew). Jerusalem: 1984.
Articles
“The Alphabet of Ben Sira.” In Rabbinic Fantasies, edited by David Stern and Mark Jay Mirsky, 167–202. Philadelphia: 1990.
Dan, Joseph. “Samael, Lilith, and the Concept of Evil in Early Kabbalah.” In Essential Papers on Kabbalah, edited by Lawrence Fine, 154–178. New York: 1995.
Hutter, M. “Lilith.” In Dictionary of Deities and Demons in the Bible, edited by Karel van der Toorn, Bob Becking, Pieter W. van der Horst. Leiden: 1995.
Lesses, Rebecca, “Exe(o)rcising Power: Women as Sorceresses, Exorcists, and Demonesses in Babylonian Jewish Society in Late Antiquity.” JAAR 69 (2001): 343–375.
Levine, Baruch, “The Language of the Magic Bowls.” In A History of the Jews in Babylonia, Vol. 5, edited by Jacob Neusner, 243–373. Leiden: 1970.
Plaskow, Judith. “The Coming of Lilith.” In Religion and Sexism: Images of Women in the Jewish and Christian Traditions, edited by Rosemary Ruether, 341–343. New York: 1974.
Scholem, Gershom. “Lilith.” In Kabbalah, by Gershom Scholem, 356–360. Jerusalem: 1974.
Scholem, Gershom. “New Contributions to the Discussion of Ashmedai and Lilith” (Hebrew). Tarbiz 19 (1947/8): 165–175.
Scholem, Gershom. “The Kabbalah of R. Jacob and R. Isaac, the sons of R. Jacob ha-Kohen” (Hebrew). Madda‘ei ha-Yahadut 2 (1927): 244–264. Publication of “Treatise on the Left Emanation” by R. Isaac ben R. Jacob ha-Kohen.
Scurlock, J. A. “Baby-snatching demons, restless souls, and the dangers of childbirth: medico-magical means of dealing with some of the perils of motherhood in ancient Mesopotamia.” Incognita 2 (1991): 137–185.
Teugels, G.M.G. “The Creation of the Human in Rabbinic Tradition.” In The Creation of Man and Woman: Interpretations of the Biblical Narratives in Jewish and Christian Traditions, edited by Gerard P. Luttikhuizen, 107–127. Leiden: 2000
Websites
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~humm/Topics/Lilith/lilith.html
An excellent site at the University of Pennsylvania, with many of the original sources available here, and links to other sites on Lilith.
The website of Lilith magazine.
A website on the music festival Lilith Fair.
The Lilith Shrine, a personal website of a Jewish pagan with many interesting links, especially on the contemporary meanings of Lilith.
