A love-song of Shu-Suen (Shu-Suen B): bibliography

Print sources used

Alster, Bendt, "Marriage and Love in the Sumerian Love Songs", in Cohen, M.E. (ed.), and Snell, D.C., and Weisberg, D.B., The Tablet and the Scroll. Near Eastern Studies in Honor of William W. Hallo CDL: Bethesda, MD, 1993, 22: translation, commentary (?No. 11 (lines 11-17))

Alster, Bendt, "Sumerian Love Songs", Revue d'assyriologie et d'archéologie orientale 79(1985), 127-159. Pages 135-138: translation, commentary (edition?)

Jacobsen, Thorkild, The Harps that Once.... Sumerian Poetry in Translation. Yale University Press: New Haven/London, 1987, 88-89: translation, commentary

Jacobsen, Thorkild, The Treasures of Darkness. A History of Mesopotamian Religion. Yale University Press: New Haven/London, 1976, 171: translation, commentary (ll. 1-15)

Kramer, Samuel Noah, "Five New Sumerian Literary Texts", Belleten 16(1952), 345-365: pages 360-363, pl. 66: translation, commentary, handcopy, composite text (edition?)

Kramer, Samuel Noah, The Sacred Marriage Rite: Aspects of Faith, Myth, and Ritual in Ancient Sumer. Indiana University Press: Bloomington, 1969, 92-93: translation, commentary

Römer, Willem H.Ph., and Hecker, Karl, and Kaiser, Otto, Lieder und Gebete, 1 (Texte Aus der Umwelt des Alten Testaments II, 5) Gütersloher Verlagshaus Gerd Mohn: Gütersloh, 1989, 689-691: translation, commentary ((by Römer))

Sefati, Yitschak, "Love Songs in Sumerian Literature: Critical Edition of the Dumuzi-Inanna Songs", Bar-Ilan University: Ramat-Gan, 1985 (Ph.D dissertation), 400-406: composite text, commentary, translation (edition?)

Sefati, Yitschak, "Sumerian Canonical Compositions. A. Divine Focus. 6. Love Poems: Dumuzi Inanna Songs (1.169)", in Hallo, William W. (ed.), The Context of Scripture, I: Canonical Compositions from the Biblical World Brill: Leiden/New York/Köln, 1997, 541-542: translation, commentary (title: Bridegroom, spend the night in our house till dawn)

Sefati, Yitschak, Love songs in Sumerian literature: critical edition of the Dumuzi-Inanna songs. Bar-Ilan University Press: Ramat-Gan, 1998, 353-359: score transliteration, translation, commentary

Electronic sources used

Electronic legacy material kindly supplied by:

Krecher, Joachim and Jagersma, B., (LIT3.TXT, 1996: composite text, translation)
Sefati, Yitschak (LOVESONG.SEF, 1999: composite text, translation)

Cuneiform sources

Ni 2461 (ISET 1 32; FTS fg. 76; Bell. 16 pl. 66; UMB 17/2 fg. 15)

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