Johann Friedrich Karl Keil or Carl Friedrich Keil (26 February 1807 – 5 May 1888) was a conservative German Lutheran Old Testament

Old Testament

The Old Testament, of which Christians hold different views, is a Christian term for the religious writings of ancient Israel held sacred and inspired by Christians which overlaps with the 24-book canon of the Masoretic Text of Judaism...

 commentator. He was born at Lauterbach near Oelsnitz

Oelsnitz, Vogtland

Oelsnitz is a town in the Vogtlandkreis district, in the Free State of Saxony, Germany. It is situated on the river Weiße Elster, south of Plauen and southwest of Zwickau.- References :...

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Kingdom of Saxony

The Kingdom of Saxony , lasting between 1806 and 1918, was an independent member of a number of historical confederacies in Napoleonic through post-Napoleonic Germany. From 1871 it was part of the German Empire. It became a Free state in the era of Weimar Republic in 1918 after the end of World War...

, and died at Rätz, Saxony.

He is best known for his contributions to the Keil & Delitzsch commentaries, written with Franz Delitzsch

Franz Delitzsch

Franz Delitzsch was a German Lutheran theologian and Hebraist. Born in Leipzig, he held the professorship of theology at the University of Rostock from 1846 to 1850, at the University of Erlangen until 1867, and after that at the University of Leipzig until his death...

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Keil was a student of Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg

Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg

Ernst Wilhelm Theodor Herrmann Hengstenberg , was a German Lutheran churchman and neo-Lutheran theologian.He was born at Frondenberg, a Westphalian village, and was educated by his father, who was a minister of the Reformed Church and head of the Frondenberg convent of canonesses...

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Old Testament Commentary

• Volume 1: Pentateuch
• Volume 2: Joshua, Judges, Ruth, 1 & 2 Samuel
• Volume 3: 1 & 2 Kings, 1 & 2 Chronicles
• Volume 4: Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther, Job
• Volume 5: Psalms
• Volume 6: Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Songs
• Volume 7: Isaiah
• Volume 8: Jeremiah, Lamentations
• Volume 9: Ezekiel, Daniel
• Volume 10: Minor Prophets

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"He was a scholar who went along slowly and deliberately, not fantastic, but all the more reasonable and clear, not witty, but all the more beneficial in doctrine and charm by wonderful, unapproachable theories." (Franz Delitzsch about Keil)