Iain Provan

Marshall Sheppard Professor of Biblical Studies

Iain Provan’s previous academic teaching career has taken him to King’s College London, the University of Wales, and the University of Edinburgh, where he was a senior lecturer in Hebrew and Old Testament Studies from 1989 until 1997. He has written numerous essays and articles, and several books, including commentaries on Lamentations, 1 and 2 Kings, Ecclesiastes, and Song of Songs. Most recently, he wrote The Reformation and the Right Reading of Scripture. Iain is an ordained Presbyterian minister of the Church of Scotland; a Life Member of Clare Hall, Cambridge, in the U.K.; and the recipient of an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship in Germany.

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