[2] Her dissertation, which examined the creation of an imagined past within the Hebrew Bible, was subsequently published as King Manasseh and Child Sacrifice: Biblical Distortions of Historical Realities.

"[14] Stavrakopoulou has served as writer and presenter for a number of media productions relating to her scholarly and political interests.

[2] Her first primetime presentation was a three-part television series for the BBC2 The Bible's Buried Secrets (2011;[2] not to be confused with NOVA's 2008 programme of the same name).

[15] The main focus of Stavrakopoulou's research is on the Hebrew bible,[2] and on Israelite and Judahite history and religion.

Here is a portrait—arrived at through the author's close examination of and research into the Bible—of a god in ancient myths and rituals who was a product of a particular society, at a particular time, made in the image of the people who lived then, shaped by their own circumstances and experience of the world".

[16] By contrast, R. W. L. Moberly took a more critical approach to Stavrakopoulou's book, arguing that she misunderstands the traditional interpretation of the Hebrew Bible and that the passages she cites as describing God in anthropomorphic terms are better understood as metaphorical.