Iain Provan


Iain William Provan is a British Old Testament scholar, now living in Canada. He is Marshall Sheppard Professor of Biblical Studies at Regent College.

Education

Provan holds degrees from the University of Glasgow, London Bible College, and the University of Cambridge. His PhD thesis at Cambridge was published in 1988 as Hezekiah and the Books of Kings. He previously lectured at King's College London and then, after holding a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Wales, at the University of Edinburgh.

Career

Provan has written numerous academic essays, many of the earlier of which are included in his '. He has also published commentaries on Lamentations, 1 and 2 Kings, Ecclesiastes, and the Song of Songs, as well as co-editing ', a Festschrift for his Cambridge PhD supervisor, Hugh G. M. Williamson. His other books include ', and '. The 2003 co-authored volume ' was the winner of the 2005 Biblical Archaeology Society prize for the best popular book on archaeology; it has now appeared in a second edition. ' won the 2016 R. B. Y. Scott Award from the Canadian Society of Biblical Studies, recognizing an outstanding book in the areas of Hebrew Bible and/or the Ancient Near East.
Provan has been awarded an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Research Fellowship on four occasions, and a Lilly Foundation Theological Research Grant. He was a Visiting Fellow at Clare Hall, Cambridge, in 1993, and has been a Life Member of the college since that time. He is a member of the Society for Old Testament Study, the Society of Biblical Literature, the Canadian Society of Biblical Studies, and the Humboldt Association of Canada. He is also a minister of the Church of Scotland. He is married with four adult children. His hobbies include fly-fishing.

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