L. Michael White is an American Biblical scholar. He is Ronald Nelson Smith Chair in Classics and Christian Origins, and director of the Institute for the Study of Antiquity and Christian Origins, at the
University of Texas at Austin
The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin, UT, or Texas) is a public university, public research university in Austin, Texas, United States. Founded in 1883, it is the flagship institution of the University of Texas System. With 53,082 stud ...
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He is the author or co-author of seven books, editor of four volumes and collected essays, and author of twenty-six articles. In 2011, White won the University of Texas'
Robert W. Hamilton Book Award, a $10,000 prize, for his newest book ''Scripting Jesus'' (2010). White also won the same award in 2006 for his book ''From Jesus to Christianity''.
In addition, White is Project Director of the Ostia Synagogue Area Excavations, "Ostia Synagogue Masonry Analysis Project" or OSMAP, an archaeological field project to reevaluate the area around the ancient synagogue of
Ostia Antica
Ostia Antica () is an ancient Roman city and the port of Rome located at the mouth of the Tiber. It is near modern Ostia, southwest of Rome. Due to silting and the invasion of sand, the site now lies from the sea. The name ''Ostia'' (the pl ...
, the port city of ancient Rome.
The
Ostia Synagogue is the oldest synagogue in Europe, and is thought to be one of the oldest in the world.
White has served as consultant and co-writer, as well as being featured in, two PBS/Frontline documentaries: ''From Jesus to Christ: The First Christians'' and ''Apocalypse! Time, History, and Revelation''.
Published works
Books
* ''The Tabula of Cebes: Text and Translation'', Chico, California: Scholars Press, 1983
* ''The HarperCollins Concise Atlas of the Bible'', San Francisco: HarperCollins, 1991
* ''From Jesus to Christianity'', San Francisco: HarperCollins, 2004.
* ''Scripting Jesus'', San Francisco: HarperCollins, 2010.
Notes
Further reading
''Houston Chronicle'' interview (2004)
External links
Homepage at the University of Texas at Austin
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American biblical scholars
American religion academics
University of Texas at Austin faculty
Place of birth missing (living people)
Members of the Jesus Seminar
Yale University alumni
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