The Society for Biblical Studies

The Speakers (continued):

Dr. Sara Roy
Senior Research Fellow, Center for Middle East Studies, Harvard University
author of
Hamas and Civil Society: Engaging the Islamist Social Sector(2011)

Dr.Sara Roy (Ed.D. Harvard University) is a senior research scholar at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies specializing in the Palestinian economy, Palestinian Islamism and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Dr. Roy is also co-chair of the Middle East Seminar, jointly sponsored by the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, and co-chair of the Middle East Forum at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies.

he Rev. Peter J. Miano
Executive Director, The Society For Biblical Studies
author of
Mainstream Christian Zionism

The Rev. Peter J. Miano is the founder and Executive Director of The Society for Biblical Studies. He is an ordained United Methodist minister and served local churches for ten years. He has worked in Jerusalem for 19 years as a United Methodist missionary and as a teacher. He teaches biblical studies, mission, and contemporary studies, pastoral studies. He is the author of a book, The Word of God and the World of the Bible: An Introduction to the Cultural Backgrounds of the New Testament. (London: Melisende, 2001).rector.

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