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Dr. Yii-Jan Lin: Apocalypse: How the Book of Revelation Shaped American Immigration
July 18, 2025 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Join us on July 18 at noon (AZ Time) as special guest Yii-Jan Lin, PhD, Associate Professor of New Testament at Yale Divinity School, discusses her book Immigration and Apocalypse: How the Book of Revelation Shaped American Immigration.
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Yii-Jan Lin is Associate Professor of New Testament at Yale Divinity School and the author of Immigration and Apocalypse: How the Book of Revelation Shaped American Immigration (Yale 2024) and The Erotic Life of Manuscripts: New Testament Textual Criticism and the Biological Sciences(Oxford 2016). Her research focuses on immigration, textual criticism, the Revelation of John, race, and gender.Immigration and Apocalypse: How the Book of Revelation Shaped American Immigration is described as a fascinating analysis of the religious, biblical, and apocalyptic in American immigration history and a damning narrative that weaves together American religious history, immigration and ethnic studies, and the use of biblical texts and imagery.