Someone suggested, in reply to a request for characters like Glen Close's in _Fatal Attraction_, "a Biblical character by the name of Lillith." Just to keep matters straight, there is only one Biblical ref to Lilith, and that not in the King James translation, where the "screech owl" of Isaiah 34:14 is elsewhere translated as Lilith, a word that in fact is etymologically related to "air" and is a pre-Hebrew storm goddess. The _legends_ of Lilith, putative first wife of Adam, are mostly available in a book by ben Sirah and are the basis of many works, perhaps most famously George MacDonald's _Lilith_, a religious allegory. In the Bible itself, that one ref says nothing about Lilith, her character, whether she was the wife of anyone, etc. Eric Eric Rabkin [log in to unmask] Department of English [log in to unmask] University of Michigan office : 313-764-2553 Ann Arbor MI 48109-1045 dept : 313-764-6330 deptl fax : 313-763-3128 voice msgs: 313-763-3130