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The Meaning of Lilith in the Dead Sea Scrolls
In the Dead Sea Scrolls in the Great Isaiah scroll, it's not Lilith but Leo. The name suggests that kind of as a call back to how it originally in the Akkadian language that this was more of a category than a single entity. And even in the Pentateuch when it talks about the scapegoat, this is the goat for Azazel was another demonic figure. So you have order and chaos center periphery, civilization, uninhabitable land. How do we get from a screech owl or some sort of demon thing? I'm going to get us there.