As this article is essentially a reconstruction of his resume, WP:RESUME would appear relevant.
Per WP:NOR#Primary, secondary and tertiary sources, articles are meant to "be based on reliable, published secondary sources" in order to provide "interpretive claims, analyses, or synthetic claims" about the topic. Lack of any such interpretive claims, analyses, or synthetic claims, is why I described the article as a "bland and bloodless resume"  not WP:IDONTLIKEIT (as you claimed in violation of WP:AGF).
If the only thing distinguishing him from my "any random Biblical scholar" is the adjective "distinguished", then we can simply make this article a soft-redirect, with the following text "Distinguished Biblical scholar".
I answered your question  citing relevant material from the guideline you based your question on. All that "stands" is your WP:IDIDNOTHEARTHAT.
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