Lilith can be found in Hebrew-language texts.
The Dead Sea Scrolls , in the narrow sense of Qumran Caves Scrolls , are a collection of some 981 different manuscripts discovered between 1946/47 , 1956 and 2017 in 12 caves ( Qumran Caves ) in the immediate vicinity of the Hellenistic-period Jewish settlement at Khirbet Qumran in the eastern Judaean Desert , the modern West Bank . Lilith . In Hebrew-language texts , the term lilith or lilit ( translated as `` night creatures '' , `` night monster '' , `` night hag '' , or `` screech owl '' ) first occurs in a list of animals in Isaiah 34:14 , either in singular or plural form according to variations in the earliest manuscripts . Talmud . It is written in Tannaitic Hebrew and Jewish Babylonian Aramaic and contains the teachings and opinions of thousands of rabbis ( dating from before the Common Era through the fifth century CE ) on a variety of subjects , including Halakha ( law ) , Jewish ethics , philosophy , customs , history , lore and many other topics .