Gods, monsters, and scripture: interview with Gavin Evans
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, originally published in the Freethinker on 20 October 2025. 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.