Dr Kenneth Tully
Junior Research Fellow
Dr Kenneth (Ken) Tully is a Junior Research Fellow at Blackfriars Hall. He completed his DPhil in Theology and Religion in 2025 under the supervision of Prof Phil Booth and Prof Peter Thonemann.
Ken was previously a faculty member in Classical Studies at Villanova University, where he taught graduate courses in Classical and Koine Greek, including Attic Orators, History of Greek Literature, Patristics, and Iliad. His graduate courses in New Testament Greek were interdisciplinary, including doctoral candidates in either Philosophy or Religion. Ken also holds an MDiv and served for a decade in the pastoral ministry.
His dissertation, The Abercius Inscription: Context, Chiasm, and Composition, is under review for publication as a monograph. Ken is currently working on a critical text and translation of the Severian of Gabala Pauline catena.
Select Publications:
‘Rediscovered: Ramsay and the Abercius Fragments,’ Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents, Oxford University (Spring, 2024), 8-9;
Ken Tully and Pamela D. Johnston, The Hagiography of Saint Abercius: Introduction, Texts, and Translations, London: Routledge (2022);
Chad Leahy and Ken Tully, Jerusalem Afflicted: Quaresmius, Spain, and the Idea of a 17th-century Crusade, London: Routledge (2020).