Professor of Assyriology at the University of Helsinki, Finland, since 1978, Simo Parpola (“Sons of God”) has also taught at the University of Chicago and the University of Padua, Italy. He is a former editor-in-chief of the State Archives of Assyria text series and has published on a wide range of topics, including inscriptions from the Indus civilization, Mesopotamian religion and science, Assyrian prophesies, Akkadian cuneiform, Gilgamesh and Maya script. Parpola’s “The Assyrian Tree of Life: Tracing the Origins of Jewish Monotheism and Greek Philosophy” appeared in the Journal of Near Eastern Studies 52 (1993). When not enjoying bread […]
