The Catholic Biblical Quarterly, April 1st, 2003
MARK W. CHAVALAS and K. LAWSON YOUNGER, JR., Mesopotamia and the Bible (Grand Rapids: Baker, 2002). Pp. 395. Paper $29.99.
This volume constitutes the revised and enlarged proceedings of a double panel held at the 1995 meeting of the Near East Archaeological Society. The editors do not apologize for the addition of papers on Ugarit and Alalakh and information on Ebla. They "take a very loose definition of Mesopotamia" (p. 8), encompassing what one might call the cuneiform cultural zone. The book is likely to be most useful in providing context (historical, literary, social, ideological) for t...
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