Sumerian disputations

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The Sumerian disputation or Sumerian debate is a topical short story created in the middle-to-late 3rd millennium BC. Seven major debates are known, with specific titles.

The list of the majority of the known debates is as follows (from Kramer):[1]

(alphabetical)

  1. Debate between bird and fish
  2. Debate between cattle and grain
  3. Debate between the millstone and the gulgul-stone
  4. Debate between the pickaxe and the plough (translation)
  5. (translation)
  6. Debate between Summer and Winter

Additionally, four compositions of the disputation type with the Sumerian school, and its graduates or teachers:[1]

  1. The Disputation between Enkmansi and Girnishag
  2. The Colloquy between an ungula and a Scribe
  3. The Disputation between Enkitalu and Enkihegal

An additional text concerns women:[1]

References[]

  1. ^ a b c Kramer. The Sumerians: Their History, Culture and Character. University of Chicago Press. pp. 355–. ISBN 0-226-45238-7.
  • Kramer, 1963. The Sumerians: Their History, Culture and Character, Samuel Noah Kramer, c 1963, The University of Chicago Press, Chapter 5, Literature: The Sumerian Belles-Lettres, pp. 165–228; Disputation literature, pp. 217–228.

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