Oooh! Yes, Lotus -- if you haven't read the Gnostic scriptures you should definitely check them out! There is a wonderful passage in one of them in which Mary Magdalene offers the rest of the disciples secret teachings which Jesus had shared only with her. Peter gets upset and says "You're a woman! He wouldn't have shared secrets with *you*!" and one of the others replies, in effect "Oh, shut up, Peter. You always were jealous of their relationship."

The Lilith story is not Gnostic, however. . . There is scholarly research which indicates that the version of her story in general circulation was part of a satirical work written during the Renaissance(?) called The Alphabet of Ben Sirach.

However, the figure of Lilith appears does appear in ancient literature, including Inanna and the Huluppu Tree.