Benjamin L. White
Associate Professor of Religion; Chair, Department of Philosophy and Religion
Contact
Department of Philosophy and Religion
Office: Hardin 126D
Email: bwhite5@clemson.edu
Education
Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Dr. White is a scholar of ancient and modern interpretations of the New Testament, the reconstruction of Christian origins, and the development of early Christianities. He is particularly interested in the figure of Paul in Christian theopolitical discourse, as well as the intersection of memory, historiography, and ideology in the development of Pauline traditions. He’s written two books with Oxford University Press. The most recent, Counting Paul: Scientificity, Fuzzy Math, and Ideology in Pauline Studies (2025), explores the role that stylometry has played in solving the Pauline authorship problem and argues for a new historiographical foundation for Pauline Studies. It builds on the arguments of his first book, Remembering Paul: Ancient and Modern Contests over the Image of the Apostle (2014), which examined the ways in which the Apostle Paul becomes an object of knowledge for his interpreters. Dr. White’s research articles have appeared in the Journal for the Study of the New Testament, The Journal of Early Christian Studies, Catholic Biblical Quarterly, and Vigiliae christianae, among other places. Professionally, he co-chairs the Historical Paul section of the Society of Biblical Literature and serves on the editorial board of The Journal of Theological Studies..
Dr. White's ORCiD is 0009-0001-8319-4482. His Google Scholar page can he found here.
