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  "thread": {
    "id": 1221,
    "subject": "Digest urth.v019.n029",
    "messages": 1,
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    "first": "1998-10-22T08:52:25+00:00",
    "last": "1998-10-22T08:52:25+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0020-0089@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Alice Turner",
        "address": "al at interport.net"
      },
      "date": "1998-10-22T08:52:25+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Re: Digest urth.v019.n029",
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          "text": "Actually, I'd be very interested in learning more about that. Where would\none look to find supernatural evil in Judaism? I'm not sure I can find it\nin\nthe Old Testament, though it's present in the New. Sure, you've got the\ntalking \"serpent\" in the Garden, but he was just a mischievous dragon, as\nfar as I can tell. You've got the \"Accuser\" in Job, but he seems part of\nthe\nheavenly crowd, sort of God's prosecuting attorney. If you're talking about\nmodern Jewish literature, then the supernatural evil couldn't possibly be a\npre-Semitic survival, could it?"
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          "text": "I've vainly been digging around to find my copy of -Hebrew Myths- by Graves\nand someone else--not a patch on -Greek Myths-, but still....can't find it.\nAnyway, the most famous (and popular too, in the feminist millennial crowd)\nsupernatural Hebrew figure is Lilith, akin to the Sumerian Liltu, and Adam's\nfirst wife. She ditched him because he insisted on the missionary position\nduring sex while she wanted to be on top from time to time. (This was edited\nout of Genesis--the rib story follows.) She was then demonized into a) the\nmother of a huge breed of demons b) a demon who preys on newborns. Typical\nmale revision. Anyway, she is quite similar to Babylonian Jahi (literally\nRevelation's Whore of Babylon), whom we met in Dr. Talos's play.\n\n-alga"
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