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Philip Sumpter, a visiting lecturer at the University of Bonn, is an emerging scholar of Middle Eastern Christianity. His research focuses on Protestant Christianity among Palestinians and Arab Israelis. He previously was a lecturer and research associate at Nazareth Evangelical Theological Seminary in Israel. Sumpter is the author of The Substance of Psalm 24: An Attempt to Read Scripture after Brevard S. Childs (2015); with Alexander Miller, he is currently co-editing a book on Protestant and evangelical Christians in Israel-Palestine. Sumpter was also a part of the Christianity and Freedom Project headed by the Berkley Center's Religious Freedom Project. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Gloucestershire.
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