I think you would like this book. It's a thick, scholarly tome but well worth the time of anyone interested in this subject.
He debunks Sitchen nicely by carefully translating the Old Testament and other ancient texts. Heiser had an MA in Ancient History from the University of Pennsylvania, and an MA and PhD in the Hebrew Bible and Semitic Languages from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (with a minor in Classical studies). He is considered by many to be the world's leading authority on this subject.
It’s a great sadness to me that we lost Heiser just as he was really getting going :(