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The debate between Bird and Fish: bibliography

Print sources used

Bottéro, J., "La "tenson" et la réflexion sur les choses en Mésopotamie", in Reinink, G. and Vanstiphout, Herman L.J. (ed.), Dispute Poems and Dialogues in the Ancient and Medieval Near East (Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta, 42) Peeters: Leuven, 1991, 7-22: commentary

Kramer, Samuel Noah, "Sumerische Litteraire Teksten uit Ur", Phoenix 10 (1964), 99-108: translation, commentary

Krispijn, Th.J.H., "Dierenfabels in het oude Mesopotamië", in Idema, E.L. et al. (ed.), Mijn naam is haas. Dierenverhalen in verschillende culturen Ambo: Baarn, 1993,131-148: translation, commentary

Vanstiphout, Herman L.J., "A Note on the Format of "Bird and Fish"", NABU (1991) No. 104: commentary

Vanstiphout, Herman L.J., "Lore, Learning and Levity in the Sumerian Disputations: A Matter of Form, or Substance?", in Reinink, G. and Vanstiphout, Herman L.J. (ed.), Dispute Poems and Dialogues in the Ancient and Medieval Near East (Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta, 42) Peeters: Leuven, 1991, 23-46: commentary

Vanstiphout, Herman L.J., "Sumerian Canonical Compositions. C. Individual Focus. 5. Disputations", in Hallo, William W. (ed.), The Context of Scripture, I: Canonical Compositions from the Biblical World Brill: Leiden/New York/Köln, 1997, 575-588. Pp. 581-584: translation, commentary

Vanstiphout, Herman L.J., "The Mesopotamian Debate Poems. A General Presentation (Part I)", Acta Sumerologica 12 (1990), 271-318: commentary

Vanstiphout, Herman L.J., "The Mesopotamian Debate Poems. A General Presentation. Part II. The Subject", Acta Sumerologica 14 (1992), 339-367. Pp. 347-348: commentary

Vanstiphout, Herman L.J., and Alster, Bendt, "Bird and Fish. A Sumerian Debate and Fable, or: The Importance of Being Pleasant", unpublished ms., Groningen/Philadelphia/Copenhagen 1988-96 (edition prepared for PSD): composite text, score transliteration, translation, commentary

Electronic sources used

Electronic legacy material kindly supplied by:

• Civil, Miguel (BF.HW, 1994: composite text)
• Civil, Miguel (COR6.SPI, 1989: composite text)
• Krecher, Joachim (EXEMP007.XMP, 1998: score transliteration)
• Krecher, Joachim (LIT44.TXT, 1998: composite text)
• Krecher, Joachim and Jagersma, B., (LIT3.TXT, 1996: composite text, translation)
• Vanstiphout, Herman L.J. and Alster, Bendt, (B&F (also B&F/ECSL), 1997: composite text, score transliteration, translation)

Cuneiform sources

• AO 5396 (TRS 31)
• BM 65147 (CT 42 42) + BM 68049 (CT 58 62)
• CBS 4822
• CBS 4915 (PBS 10/2 21) + N 1317 (+) N 3736
• IB 1127
• N 1750 + N 1784 + N 4514 + N 7071
• N 2192 + N 4116 + Ni 4472 (ISET 2 76) (+) N 3474
• N 3219
• N 4156 + N 6995 + Ni 4579 (ISET 1 89) (+) Ni 4234 (ISET 1 82)
• NBC 7912
• Ni 4379 (ISET 1 86)
• Ni 9622A (!) (ISET 1 117)
• Ni 9673 (ISET 2 72)
• Ni 9803 (ISET 2 74f.)
• Ni 9987 (3-39) ***.
• U 16879D (UET 6 39, obv. only)
• U 16886 (UET 6 41)
• UET 6 *472
• UET 6 38
• UET 6 40 + U 5641 = UET 6 *394
• VAT 6977 + 6978 i-ii (VAS 10 204)
• 3N-T904, 146 (SLFN 55)
• 3N-T927, 521 (SLFN 55)

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