Francesca Stavrakopoulou

Professor Francesca Stavrakopoulou is Professor of the Hebrew Bible and Ancient Religion at the University of Exeter. She is the author of a number of academic monographs, journal articles, and book chapters, on the religious and social realities of the biblical world. She presented the BBC 2 documentary series The Bible?s Buried Secrets, and is currently working on a new BBC series about archaeology and the ancient world. She writes for The Guardian, The Mail on Sunday, and the Times Literary Supplement, and has spoken about the Bible, religion, and atheism at numerous public events, including the Cheltenham Science Festival, the World Humanist Congress, and Conway Hall's annual London Thinks festival. Her first book, God: An Anatomy, was published by Macmillan in 2021.