We get accused with some regularity of hating the Bible, or working to an atheistic agenda, or of twisting the evidence to fit our own purposes. Megan will take a bit of time to address these accusations :)

Additional resources:
Saana Svärd and Agnes GarciaVentura Studying Gender in the Ancient Near East
Julia AsherGreve and Joan Goodnick Westenholz Goddesses in context : on divine powers, roles, relationships and gender in Mesopotamian textual and visual sources
Martti Nissinen Homoeroticism in the biblical world : a historical perspective
Stephanie Lynn Budin and Jean MacIntosh Turfa Women in antiquity : real women across the ancient world
Zainab Bahrani Rituals of war : the body and violence in Mesopotamia
Tamás Dezső The Assyrian army
C. L. Crouch War and ethics in the ancient Near East : military violence in light of cosmology and history