FRANCESCA STAVRAKOPOULOU on the Bible, Jesus, death threats, Asherah, New Atheism & Jordan Peterson!

An in-depth interview with Francesca Stavrakopoulou (Professor of Hebrew Bible and Ancient Religion, Exeter University; Author, "God: An Anatomy").

For a transcript & more go to: www.whatiwannaknow.com/francesca-stavrakapoulou/

Timecodes:
0:00 - Intro
0:50 - Stavrakopoulou: An Anatomy
2:04 - Being an atheist Biblical scholar & response to critics
5:35 - What is the Bible?
7:47 - What is the most misunderstood thing about the Bible?
9:15 - Contradictions in the Bible
12:00 - How are is an Atheist Biblical Scholar?
12:53 - Biases of Christian Biblical Scholars
15:03 - Probability of Moses/Abraham/Noah's existence
18:00 - Did people in Biblical times believe in existence of Abraham/Moses?
21:02 - Did Jesus Christ really exist?
23:00 - Other Jesus-esque figures who existed at the same time
24:22 - Why/how did Christianity become a global phenomenon?
27:14 - Death threats & why some Christians are afraid to study Biblical history
29:51 - Anti-semitic tropes about God of Old Testament vs New Testament
33:53 - When did Christians start believing the Bible was infallible?
37:50 - Role of Enlightenment in Biblical Infallibility theory
40:31 - God's forgotten body and the book "God: An Anatomy"
47:13 - God's wife, Asherah & roots of patriarchy/sexism
51:30 - New Atheists (Dawkins, Harris) and their perspective on the Bible/religion
54:52 - Jordan Peterson, modernity, and Judeo-Christian values
56:55 - Humanism and Prof. Stavrakopoulou's worldview