Skip to content

Yale Divinity School

  • Alumni
  • Faculty Resources
  • Current Students
  • Prospective Students
  • Donate
Menu
  • Alumni
  • Faculty Resources
  • Current Students
  • Prospective Students
  • Donate

Yale Bible Study

  • About
    • Yale Bible Study Origins
    • Meet Our Presenters
    • Our Founder
    • Frequently Asked Questions
  • Courses
    • Getting Started
    • Old Testament
    • New Testament
    • Themed Study
  • Podcast
  • Events
  • Resources
    • Additional Readings
    • Artwork
    • Charts
    • Lectures
    • Maps
    • Sermons
    • Videos and Podcasts
    • Lectionary
  • Community
    • Forums
    • Sign In
    • Register
  • Contact
Menu
  • About
    • Yale Bible Study Origins
    • Meet Our Presenters
    • Our Founder
    • Frequently Asked Questions
  • Courses
    • Getting Started
    • Old Testament
    • New Testament
    • Themed Study
  • Podcast
  • Events
  • Resources
    • Additional Readings
    • Artwork
    • Charts
    • Lectures
    • Maps
    • Sermons
    • Videos and Podcasts
    • Lectionary
  • Community
    • Forums
    • Sign In
    • Register
  • Contact

Dr. Yii-Jan Lin

Yale Divinity School

Dr. Yii-Jan Lin

Dr. Yii-Jan Lin Lin specializes in immigration, textual criticism, the Revelation of John, race, and gender. Her book Immigration and Apocalypse: How the Book of Revelation Shaped American Immigration. (Yale University Press 2024), focuses on the use of Revelation in political discourse surrounding American immigration—in conceptions of America as the New Jerusalem and of unwanted immigrants as the filthy, idolatrous horde outside the city walls.

Her book The Erotic Life of Manuscripts (Oxford 2016), examines how metaphors of race, family, evolution, and genetic inheritance have shaped the goals and assumptions of New Testament textual criticism from the eighteenth century to the present.

She is currently working on issues of textuality and scripturalization, as well as on affect, the construction of “cuteness,” and its social and political power.

Professor Lin has been published in journals such as the Journal of Biblical Literature, Early Christianity, and TC: A Journal of Biblical Textual Criticism. She is co-chair of the Minoritized Criticism and Biblical Interpretation section of the Society of Biblical Literature, on the steering committee for the Ethnic Chinese Biblical Colloquium, and on the steering committees for the New Testament Textual Criticism and the Bible in America sections of SBL. She also serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Biblical Literature. Professor Lin is a member of the Society of Asian Biblical Studies, the European Association of Biblical Studies, and an elected member of Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas.

More Presenters

Loading...
Dr. Harold W. Attridge

Dr. Harold W. Attridge

Yale Divinity School

Dr. Teresa Morgan

Dr. Teresa Morgan

Yale Divinity School

Dr. Joel S. Baden

Dr. Joel S. Baden

Yale Divinity School

Rev. Dr. David L. Bartlett

Rev. Dr. David L. Bartlett

Yale Divinity School

Dr. John J. Collins

Dr. John J. Collins

Yale Divinity School

Dr. Stephen L. Cook

Dr. Stephen L. Cook

Virginia Theological Seminary

Dr. Michal Beth Dinkler

Dr. Michal Beth Dinkler

Yale Divinity School

Dr. Bruce Gordon

Dr. Bruce Gordon

Yale Divinity School

View All
  • About
  • Events
  • Community
  • Contact
  • Donate
  • Accessibility at Yale
  • About
  • Events
  • Community
  • Contact
  • Donate
  • Accessibility at Yale

Follow Us

Facebook Youtube Linkedin

Join Our Mailing List

Name
This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.
© 2025 Yale Divinity School