Agreed, the first responsibility is that of the author, and editors are notoriously overworked. But a big part of the reason this culture is obscure is because the wider audience generally doesn't care (the other big reason is that too many professional Assyriologists refuse to publish works oriented toward the public, preferring to limit their efforts to obscure journals-- but that's another rant for another time). And so efforts like these, where the author so clearly only wants to use the culture of Mesopotamia because of their own flawed preconceptions about it, rather than out of any respect or genuine interest in that culture, only adds to the public's ignorance, and no one but folks like Sovay and I complain. And that ignorance, as I noted above, is complicit in the ongoing destruction of our own heritage.