Werner Kelber

Werner H. Kelber is a biblical scholar who specializes in the Gospel of Mark. He taught religious studies at Rice University.^[1][2] He is the author of The Oral and Written Gospel (1983),^[1][3] and became known for approaching biblical studies through an understanding of oral tradition.^[4] The scholar David Rhodes wrote that "It is difficult to overestimate the significance" of Kelber's biblical studies.^[5] As of 2010, Kelber was Isla Carroll and Percy E. Turner Professor Emeritus of Biblical Studies at Rice.^[6]

Kelber attended the University of Erlangen–Nuremberg, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, and University of Tübingen.^[7] In 1974, he was an assistant professor of religious studies at Rice University.^[8] By 1984 he was professor and had written four books on the Gospel of Mark.^[9] By 1995, he was the chair of the university's religious studies department.^[7]