Theology and Religion Subject Brochure 2017

The Bible is probably the best known collection of texts in the Western world, and yet there’s still so much we don’t know about the cultures lying behind these texts. My research focuses on the cultures giving rise to the Hebrew Bible, in particular, the religious realities of these cultures – what people believed about the gods and other divine beings and how they expressed their beliefs through rituals, myths and social practice, and this feeds directly into my undergraduate teaching.

Professor Francesca Stavrakopoulou, Head of Theology and Religion, Professor in Hebrew Bible and Ancient Religion 9