Lilith: Adam’s first wife

The story of Lilith as Adam’s first wife first appears in a small collection of epigrams and moral tales known as the “Alphabet of Ben Sira”. (This work dates from medieval times; it was not authored by the Ben Sira who lived during the Second Temple period.) A brief passage there tells how, before Eve was created from Adam’s rib, G-d first created from the earth a wife for Adam named Lilith. She and Adam immediately started fighting because she demanded full equality; she soon fled and became a demoness who preyed on newborn children. (The demoness Lilith is mentioned in much earlier sources, but her connection to Adam is first found in this story.) I doubt that this text is available on line anywhere, unless some feminist group has unearthed it and posted it.