The newly revised and expanded 4^th edition of Dr. Victor Matthews’ book Old Testament Parallels: Laws and Stories from the Ancient Near East (Paulist Press, 2016) has just been published.  It is an anthology of ancient Near Eastern literature, laws, political documents, and stories that share parallel themes and in some cases parallel historical events with biblical narratives and legal materials.  There are sixty-six documents or sets of documents translated from the original languages in this volume.