{"id":153422,"date":"2017-04-14T15:59:48","date_gmt":"2017-04-14T19:59:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/irpp-policy-options.local\/authors\/iain-provan\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T15:07:50","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T19:07:50","slug":"iain-provan","status":"publish","type":"authors","link":"https:\/\/policyoptions.irpp.org\/fr\/authors\/iain-provan\/","title":{"rendered":"Iain Provan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iain Provan is the Marshall Sheppard Professor of Biblical Studies at Regent College in Vancouver, Canada.\u00a0 He holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge. 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