L. Michael White

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. 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, 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.