Sam Kneller is a good, but not brilliant student who left high school in Vancouver, Canada to pursue his studies in Israel where he learned some notions of Hebrew. That did not work out and the next stop was 4 years of the diamond industry in Antwerp. In his early 20s he became interested in theology and went back to school. On graduation he went into the French speaking Ministry in Quebec and France for some 25 years. He resides near Paris and founded an English language France tourism site, BonjourLaFrance. At the same time studying the Bible based on Biblical Hebrew which gave rise to the book series The Explanation and the podcast.