Kevin Sullivan is an Assistant Professor in the Religion Department at Illinois Wesleyan University.

Professor Sullivan teaches classes on late Second Temple Judaism, the New Testament and Christian Origins, Apocryphal and Pseudepigraphal texts, as well as Christian History more generally.

Born and raised near Detroit, MI, Professor Sullivan did his undergraduate studies at the University of Michigan, and he holds graduate degrees from the University of Notre Dame (M.A., 1995), the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies (Dipl., 1996), the University of Michigan (M.A., 1998), and the University of Oxford (D. Phil., 2003).

Professor Sullivan is the author of one monograph entitled, Wrestling with Angels: A Study of the Relationship between Angels and Humans in the Ancient Jewish Literature and the New Testament (Brill, 2004). He recently co-published an article with his colleague, Dr. Terry Wilfong (University of Michigan), entitled, “The Reply of Jesus to King Abgar: A Coptic New Testament Apocryphon Reconsidered (P. Mich. Inv. 6213),” in The Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 42 (2005) 107-123. He is also the author of numerous book reviews for journals like the Catholic Biblical Quarterly and The Expository Times.

Professor Sullivan recently received the Catholic Biblical Association’s Fellowship Award for 2005-2006, which he used to work on his next book entitled, Spreading the Word: The First Christian Missionaries. The book is under contract with Liturgical Press. It will examine the challenges faced by early Christian missionaries, such as Paul, in travel and communication.

Professor Sullivan is currently chair of the Society of Biblical Literature’s Early Jewish and Christian Mysticism Section, and is a member of the New Testament Mysticism Project.

Professor Sullivan's publications and presentations.