MESOPOTAMIA AND THE BIBLE: I wasn't going to link to the two reviews of the following book in the Review of Biblical Literature because the book didn't seem particularly relevant to this blog. But after reading the reviews I see that it at least does move into the period of paleojudaic interest and the topic, after all, is very relevant to current events (and how often can you say that about Mesopotamian studies?). So here it is:

Mesopotamia and the Bible: Comparative Explorations
Younger Jr., K. Lawson and Mark W. Chavalas, editors