The Assyrian Tree of Life: Tracing the Origins of Jewish Monotheism and Greek Philosophy

Simo Parpola's 1993 article in the Journal of Near Eastern Studies (52:3) proposing that the Neo-Assyrian sacred-tree iconography preserves a structured cosmological-philosophical system with parallels to the later Kabbalistic Sephirot. A controversial but influential reading the corpus registers in the cross-cultural sacred-tree discussion.