Thanks for the reference and I've been listening to her online interview with three other Brits posted at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesca_Stavrakopoulou Interesting to hear their cordial exchange. She flat out admits that even if she had eyewitnessed the resurrection she still would not believe Jesus was the Son of God.

In other words, her scholarship is not inclined to be distorted by identifying personally with the subject matter.

Our worldview and fundamental religious beliefs underlie and influence everything we do and say. My take is Stavrakopoulou's conclusions are exactly the kind of thing we would expect from an atheist Hebrew Bible scholar, but this does not make them neutral, unbiased, or necessarily the best research. See The Myth of Religious Neutrality by Roy Clouser.

Thanks for the reference and I've been listening to her online interview with three other Brits posted at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesca_Stavrakopoulou Interesting to hear their cordial exchange.

In other words, her scholarship is not inclined to be distorted by identifying personally with the subject matter.

Our worldview and fundamental religious beliefs underlie and influence everything we do and say. My take is Stavrakopoulou's conclusions are exactly the kind of thing we would expect from an atheist Hebrew Bible scholar, but this does not make them neutral, unbiased, or necessarily the best research. See The Myth of Religious Neutrality by Roy Clouser.