1. Francesca Stavrakopoulou is a British biblical scholar and broadcaster.
15 Facts About Francesca Stavrakopoulou
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Francesca Stavrakopoulou is currently Professor of Hebrew Bible and Ancient Religion at the University of Exeter.
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Francesca Stavrakopoulou was born on 3 October 1975 to an English mother and a Greek father.
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Francesca Stavrakopoulou was educated at the Godolphin and Latymer School and won an exhibition to Worcester College, Oxford.
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Francesca Stavrakopoulou filled subsequent teaching and research positions at Oxford at Worcester College, as a Junior Research Fellow and as a Career Development Fellow in the Faculty of Theology, departing Oxford in 2005.
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Francesca Stavrakopoulou began a position in Hebrew Bible and Ancient Religion in the University of Exeter's Department of Theology and Religion in 2005, rising to the level of senior lecturer by March 2011.
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Francesca Stavrakopoulou served as Head of Theology and Religion at Exeter between 2013 and 2016.
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In 2011, Francesca Stavrakopoulou was secretary of the British-based Society for Old Testament Study in 2011, and member of the European Association of Biblical Studies and of the US-based Society of Biblical Literature.
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Francesca Stavrakopoulou has served as writer and presenter for a number of media productions relating to her scholarly and political interests.
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Francesca Stavrakopoulou contributed to Channel 4's series The Bible: A History, regarding the historicity of Moses.
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Francesca Stavrakopoulou's first primetime presentation was a three-part television series for the BBC2 The Bible's Buried Secrets.
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The main focus of Francesca Stavrakopoulou's research is on the Hebrew Bible, and on Israelite and Judahite history and religion.
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Francesca Stavrakopoulou argues that important figures in the Hebrew Bible were not historical figures as represented in the text.
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Francesca Stavrakopoulou concludes that she does not believe accounts of Moses and King David in the Hebrew Bible to be factual and that "as an historian of the bible, I think there is very little that is factual".
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Francesca Stavrakopoulou's dissertation-based monograph, and her subsequent authored book-length publications are:.