Werner H. Kelber is a biblical scholar who specializes in the Gospel of Mark.
[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.
[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.