Gavin Evans is a writer and lecturer whose most recent book, Bible Stories: Fact, Fantasy and Fiction in Scripture, is the subject of this interview. Topics discussed include: the origins of the Jewish, Christian, and Muslim holy texts, the development of the ideas of heaven and hell, the varieties of Zionism, the dangers of fundamentalism today, and the New Atheists.
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