Werner Keller

Werner Keller was a German civil servant, journalist, nonfiction author and anti-Nazi resistance fighter.

He studied Engineering and Medicine, and then Jurisprudence, in Berlin, Rostock, Zurich and Jena. In 1933, he became a Doctor of Jurisprudence.

In 1955, he published 'The Bible as History', his best-known and most successful book, which correlated the text of the Bible with the results of archaeological diggings in the Middle East, providing, according to Keller, a confirmation of the Bible's veracity which was not dependent on religious faith. It had a circulation of over one million in Germany and has been translated into more than 20 languages, and in 1957 gained him the Italian Literary Prize Premio Bancarella. Among others, it was successfully translated into Hebrew at a time when cultural relations with Germany were far from taken for granted in Israel; the "Davar" Labour daily in Tel Aviv in 1958 distributed free copies of Keller's book to its subscribers.

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