Dr. Werner Keller wrote, "As a journalist I have been for many years exclusively concerned with the results of modern science and research... These sensational reports - and, indeed, in view of the significance of these finds it is not too much to use the word sensational' - awakened in me the desire to come to closer grips with Biblical archaeology, the most recent and, generally speaking, least known province in the field of investigation into the ancient world. I therefore ransacked German and foreign literature for a comprehensive and intelligible summary of the results of previous research. I found none for there was none to find. So I went to the sources myself in the libraries of many lands - aided in this bit of real detective work by my wife's enthusiasm - and collected all the hitherto scientifically established results o f investigation which were to be found in the learned works of Biblical archaeologists."

The result of Dr. Keller's research was published by William Morrow and Company of New York in 1956 under the title, THE BIBLE IN HISTORY. The volume I read was the fifteenth printing of a fully revised edition published in 1964.

Dr. Keller concludes his introduction with this statement concerning archaeology's contribution to the validity of the Bible record, "In view of the overwhelming mass of authentic and well-attested evidence now available, as I thought, of the skeptical criticism from the eighteenth century onward would fain have demolished the Bible altogether, there kept hammering in my brain this one sentence: The Bible was right after all!'"