Ontology and Representation in Assyria and the Ancient Near East

This is, in a sense, an unfinished work, in that the text was eventually abandoned in favour of another work, The Sacred History of Being, which had its first draft in early 2003, but which was completed only in late 2014. 
The writing of that draft prompted me to write to Simo Parpola in late 2004, since in researching it I had found references to his paper ‘The Assyrian Tree of Life: Tracing the Origins of Jewish Monotheism and Greek Philosophy’, JNES (Journal of Near Eastern Studies, n...