Curriculum Vitae
EducationB.A. Abilene Christian University, 1971
M.A. Abilene Christian University, 1973 M.Divinity School Yale Divinity School, 1975 M.A. Yale University, 1977 M.Phil. Yale University, 1978 Ph.D. Yale University, 1982 Academic Appointments2007 - PresentProfessor of Classics
Professor of Religious Studies Director, Institute for the Study of Antiquity & Cahristian Origins The University of Texas at Austin 2002 - 2007Professor of Classics
Director, Institute for the Study of Antiquity & Cahristian Origins The University of Texas at Austin 1996 - 2002Professor of Classics
Director, Religious Studies Programs The University of Texas at Austin 1996 - 1981Department of Religion, Oberlin College
EDITED VOLUMES & ESSAY COLLECTIONS
Social Networks in the Early Christian Environment: Issues and Methods for Social History. Edited by L.M. White. SEMEIA 56; Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1991. The Social World of the First Christians : Studies in Honor of Wayne A. Meeks. Edited by L.M. White and O.L.Yarbrough. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1995. The Burden of the Flesh: Fasting and Sexuality in Early Christianity, by Teresa M. Shaw, edited by L.M. White. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1998 Early Christianity and Classical Culture: Comparative Studies in Honor of A. J. Malherbe. Edited by J.T. Fitzgerald, T.H. Olbricht, and L.M. White. Supplements to Novum Testamentum 110; Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2003. |
Visiting Research Appointments
1993 - 1998 & 1983
Visiting Senior Associate at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens
Research Appointments (in residence). Other Research & Professional Activities2001 - PresentDirector, UT-OSMAP: Archaeological Explorations off the Ancient Synagogue at Ostia, Italy.
An affiliated project of the American Academy at Rome. PublicationsBOOKS & MONOGRAPHS THE TABULA OF CEBES: Text and Translation, with Introduction and Notes. By J.T. Fitzgerald and L.M. White. Society of Biblical Literature Text and Translations Series, 24; Graeco-Roman Religions Series, 7. Chico, CA: Scholars Press, 1983. Building God's House in the Roman World: Architectural Adaptation among Pagans, Jews, and Christians. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990. The Times Concise Atlas of the Bible. By J.B. Pritchard and *L. M. White. London: Times Books Ltd., 1991. (Published in U.S. as Harper-Collins Concise Atlas of the Bible. San Francisco: Harper, 1991). [* Editor and Author of the New Testament Section] The Social Origins of Christian Architecture, 2 vols.; Harvard Theological Studies 42; Philadelphia: Trinity Press International, 1996-97. From Jesus to Christianity: How Four Generations of Visionaries and Storytellers Created the New Testament and Christian Faith. San Francisco: Harper-Collins. 2004. Winner, Grand Prize 2006 Robert Hamilton Book Award Spanish Language Edition: De Jesús al cristianismo: El Nuevo Testamento y la fe cristiana: un processo de cuatro generaciones. Tradución de José Pérez Escobar. Estella (España): Editorial Verbo Divina, 2007. Field O: “The Synagogue” Site. The Joint Expedition to Caesarea Maritima, Excavation Reports, Vol. IX. By M.L. Govaars, M. Spiro, and L.M. White. Boston: American Schools of Oriental Research, 2009. Scripting Jesus: The Gospel Authors as Storytellers. San Francisco: Harper-Collins, 2010 (in press). |
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ARTICLES IN JOURNALS & COLLECTIONS (SELECTED)
"Adolf Harnack and the 'Expansion' of Early Christianity: A Re-appraisal of Social History," The Second Century: A Journal of Early Christian Studies 5:2 (1985/86), 97-127. "Sociological Analysis of Early Christian Groups: A Social Historian's Response," Sociological Analysis 47:3 (1986), 249-266. "The Delos Synagogue Revisited: Recent Fieldwork in the Graeco-Roman Diaspora," Harvard Theological Review 80:2 (1987), 133-160. "Shifting Sectarian Boundaries in Early Christianity," Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester 70:3 (1988), 7-24. "Jews and Christians in a Roman World," (with E.M. Meyers) Archaeology 42:2 (1989), 26-33. "Morality Between Two Worlds: A Paradigm of Friendship in Philippians." Pp. 201-215 in Greeks, Romans, and Christians: Essays in Honor of Abraham J. Malherbe. Edited by D. L. Balch, W. A. Meeks, and E. Ferguson. Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress, 1990. "Crisis Management and Boundary Maintenance: The Social Location of the Matthean Community." Pp. 211-247 in Social History of the Matthean Community: Cross-Disciplinary Approaches. Edited by D. L. Balch. Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress, 1991. "Finding the Ties that Bind: Issues from Social Description." Pp. 3-23 in Social Networks in the Early Christian Environment: Issues and Methods for Social History. Edited by L. M. White. Semeia 56; Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1991. "Social Networks: Theoretical Orientation and Historical Application." Pp. 24-38 in Ibid. "Urban Development and Social Change in Imperial Ephesos.” Pp. 27-79 in Ephesos Metropolis of Asia: An Interdisciplinary Approach to its Archaeology, Religion, and Culture. Edited by H. Koester. Harvard Theological Studies 41. Philadelphia: Trinity Press International, 1995. "Synagogue and Society in Imperial Ostia: Archaeological and Epigraphic Evidence," Harvard Theological Review 90:1 (1997) 23-58. “Regulating Fellowship in the Communal Meal: Early Jewish and Christian Evidence.” Pp. 177-205 in Meals in a Social Context: Aspects of the Communal Meal in the Hellenistic and Roman World, ed. by I. Nielsen and H. Sigismund Nielsen (Aarhus Studies in Mediterranean Antiquity; Copenhagen: Aarhus University Press, 1998). "Synagogue and Society in Imperial Ostia: Archaeological and Epigraphic Evidence." Pp. 30-68 in Judaism and Christianity in First-Century Rome, edited by K.P. Donfried and P. Richardson (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1998). |
"Counting the Costs of Nobility: The Social Economy of Roman Pergamon.” Pp. 331-371 in Pergamon, Citadel of the Gods: Archaeological and Historical Studies , ed. by H. Koester (Harvard Theological Studies; Valley Forge: Trinity Press International, 1998) 331-371. “Reading the Ostia Synagogue: A Reply to A. Runesson,” Harvard Theological Review 92:4 (1999) 435- 464. “Early Christian Architecture: The First Five Centuries,” in The Early Christian World, edited by P.E. Esler (London: Routledge, 1999) II:693-746 (+25 illustrations). (with J.T. Fitzgerald) “Quod est comparandum: The Problem of Parallels.” Pp. 13-39 in Early Christianity and Classical Culture: Comparative Studies in Honor of Abraham J. Malherbe, edited by J.T. Fitzgerald, T.H. Olbricht, and L.M. White. Supplements to Novum Testamentum 110; Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2003. “Rhetoric and Reality in Galatians: Framing the Social Demands of Friendship.” Pp. 307-349 in ibid. (with M. de Jonge) “The Washing of Adam in the Acherusian Lake (Greek Life of Adam and Eve 37.3) in the Context of Early Christian Notions of the Afterlife.” Pp. 609-635 in ibid. (with M. de Jonge) “The Washing of Adam in the Acherusian Lake (Greek Life of Adam and Eve 37.3) in the Context of Early Christian Notions of the Afterlife.” Pp. 201-227 in The Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament as Part of Christian Literature: The Case of the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs and the Greek Life of Adam and Eve. Supplements to Vetus Testamentum Pseudepigrapha series. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2003. “Paul and Pater Familias.” Pp. 457-487 in Paul in His Greco Roman Context, ed. by J.P. Sampley. Harrisburg: Trinity Press International, 2003. “A Measure of Parrhesia: The State of the Manuscript of PHerc. 1471.” Pp. 103-130 in Philodemus and the New Testament World, edited by J.T. Fitzgerald, D. Obbink, and G. Holland. Supplements to Novum Testamentum. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2003. “Favorinus’ Korinthiakos : A Piqued Panorama of the Hadrianic Forum.” Pp. 61-110 in Urban Religion in Roman Corinth: Archeological & Historical Studies, edited by D. Showalter, and S. Friesen (Harvard Theological Studies; Cambridge: Harvard UP, 2005). “Epilogue as Prologue: Herod and the Jewish Experience of Augustan Rule.” Pp. 361-387 in The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Augustus, ed. by Karl Galinsky (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2005). “Moral Pathology: Passions, Progress, and Protreptic in Clement of Alexandria.” Pp. 284-321 in Passions and Moral Progress in Greco-Roman Thought, ed. by J.T. Fitzgerald (London: Routledge, 2007). “Ordering the Fragments of PHerc. 1471: A New Hypothesis.” Cronache Ercolanesi 39 (2009) 29-70. |
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ARTICLES IN REFERENCE WORKS (SELECTED)
Eleven Articles in the Encyclopedia of Early Christianity , ed. by E. Ferguson, M.P. McHugh, and F.W. Norris (New York: Garland, 1990; 2nd ed., 1997). "Christianity: Early Social Life and Organization," in The Anchor Bible Dictionary (Garden City: Doubleday, 1992) Vol. I, pp. 927-935. Five articles in the Encylopedia of Near Eastern Archaeology, ed. by Eric M. Meyers et al. (New York: Oxford University Press, 199. |