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Henri Frankfort, “The Burney Relief,” Archiv für Orientforschung 12 (1937–1939), pp. 128–135; Emil G.H. Kraeling, Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 67 (1937), p. 18. Today, however, some scholars identify the figure as Ishtar.

James P. Pritchard, Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament, 2nd ed. (Princeton, NJ: Princeton Univ. Press, 1955), p. 106.

John Allegro’s rendering “the sins in her skirt are many,” followed by subsequent translators, is subject to serious doubt. For a detailed explication, see Joseph M. Baumgarten, “On the Nature of the Seductress in 4Q184,” Revue de QumraÆn 15 (1991–1992), p. 139.

Pamela White Hadas, “The Passion of Lilith,” in In Light of Genesis (Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1980), pp. 2–19.

Judith Plaskow Goldenberg, “Epilogue: The Coming of Lilith,” in Religion and Sexism, ed. Rosemary Radford Ruether (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1974), pp. 341–343.

Rossetti, “Eden Bower,” in Poems (Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1873), pp. 31–41.

Joseph Adler, “Lilith,” Midstream 45:5 (July/August 1999), p. 6.

David Stern and Mark Jay Mirsky, eds., Rabbinic Fantasies (Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1990).

All references to the Zohar are to the edition translated by Harry Sperling and Maurice Simon, 2nd ed. (London: Soncino, 1984), vol. 1.