Yii-Jan Lin

Associate Professor New Testament @YaleDivSchool • 她 • not always here •

[Yii-Jan Lin @janjancl]

What a time for my book to be coming out (official pub date 11/26) Here's a link to pre-order sites: https://t.co/fbWM6qTMua I'm so grateful to those who read and endorsed: Dan-el Padilla Peralta, @jaxhidalgo, Willie James Jennings, and Tat-siong Benny Liew. @yalepress

[Yii-Jan Lin @janjancl]

CFP deadline Mar 31, & registration at link. I am a plenary speaker along with Stephanie Buckhanon Crowder, Mark Elliott, Beverly Roberts Gaventa, Joshua Ralston, Hanna Reichel, Michelle Sanchez, J. Ross Wagner https://t.co/3FkFWsp7Kv

[Yii-Jan Lin @janjancl]

Two calls for papers for SBL 2026 from the units I co-chair: Bible in America and Minoritized Criticism & Biblical Interpretation. Please consider submitting an abstract on either of these urgent topics!

[Yii-Jan Lin @janjancl]

I will be giving the Harshbarger Lecture at Penn State on Feb. 25, on a topic that is increasingly terrible. Register here (also streaming): https://t.co/t4dV8L2ysu

[Faith Angle Forum @faithangleforum]

The Book of Revelation, unsealing the scroll and unleashing judgment on enemies is a powerful, symbolic narrative which has been used related to immigration. @janjancl from our recent Faith Angle West

[Yii-Jan Lin @janjancl]

Come to my book review panel at #AARSBL2025 ! A cross-organization, interdisciplinary joint session, Sat. Nov 22 @ 1-3:30 Hynes Convention Center 201 -- if not for me, then to hear one of these fabulous panelists!

[Yii-Jan Lin @janjancl]

Review of Immigration and Apocalypse in the Times Literary Supplement!

[The TLS @TheTLS]

'She argues persuasively that American political discourse since colonial times has been undergirded by the “New Jerusalem metaphor” – the foundational myth that America mirrors Revelation’s heavenly city.'

Christopher Cusack on the US as the New Jerus... https://t.co/XnebFCtBRc

[It Means What It Means Podcast @means_podcast]

When you’re done with today’s episode of @data_over_dogma episode, go check out my conversation with @janjancl about her article “Our Cloud of Witnesses.” https://t.co/lBlMITryVN

[City Lights Books @CityLightsBooks]

This week at City Lights LIVE!
🌸 Wednesday 4/16: Jody Weiner
@svpublishing
*In-store only*
🌸 Thursday 4/17: @seanehewitt with @samsax1
@AAKnopf
🌸 Saturday 4/19: Kyle Smith, @janjancl, and @jon_rauch
*Online only*
For streams, please register here: https://t.co/S4PSk5a0Oy

[Yii-Jan Lin @janjancl]

A conversation for this deadly and apocalyptic time: this Saturday, hosted by @CityLightsBooks - online and free, registration link: https://t.co/hP8Qd0GPrC

[Dan McClellan @maklelan]

Some lovely books I’m reading by @rogernamsays @MichaelPeppard @janjancl and James W. barker for upcoming interviews on the @data_over_dogma podcast. If only my schedule weren’t such a mess.

[Yale University Press @yalepress]

In "How the Book of Revelation Shaped America's Border Politics and the Trump Wall," @ReligionMag speaks with Yii-Jan Lin @janjancl, author of Immigration and Apocalypse.
https://t.co/dRUtf2UtKO

[Yii-Jan Lin @janjancl]

Con @EthnicMediaSvc
"Como en el Apocalipsis, donde la gente solo puede entrar por las puertas después de lavar sus túnicas, los trabajadores que entraban por la frontera tenían que conseguir un boleto para bañarse. Literalmente tenían que lavarse..." https://t.co/ozEU7igDrX

[It Means What It Means Podcast @means_podcast]

Big thanks to @janjancl for sitting down with me to discuss her article "Our Cloud of Witnesses: A Writing of Hebrews 11:1–12:2 in Memory of the Asian and Asian American Women Killed 16 March 2021." The interview will be available for free in March.

[Yii-Jan Lin @janjancl]

TODAY at Yale library lecture hall 5:30pm-open to the public, no registration needed.
With deportations, N*zi salutes claimed as "Roman," & Christian prophecy proclaimed, we'll dissect American classicism & biblicism as foundational to US white supremacy & anti-immigrant violence

[Yii-Jan Lin @janjancl]

Immigration & Apocalypse book event at Yale, where I'll be in conversation with Dan-el Padilla Peralta. It's not lost on us that this is after inauguration and MLK day. Please come if you're in the area! Open to the public.

[Yii-Jan Lin @janjancl]

Immigration & Apocalypse book event at Yale, where I'll be in conversation with Dan-el Padilla Peralta. It's not lost on us that this is after inauguration and MLK day. Please come if you're in the area! Open to the public.

[Yale University Press @yalepress]

@janjancl Yii-Jan Lin, author of Immigration and Apocalypse, was interviewed on the Yale Center for Faith & Culture podcast For the Life of the World. @YaleCFC Listen now! https://t.co/c5lZencT3p

[Yale University Press @yalepress]

@janjancl Yii-Jan Lin, author of Immigration and Apocalypse, was interviewed on @NewBooksNetwork. Listen now! https://t.co/5xFcBMUeXI

[Yale University Press @yalepress]

@janjancl Yii-Jan Lin, author of Immigration and Apocalypse, was interviewed on the podcast Quadcast. Listen now! https://t.co/7kNLTz09k8

[Yii-Jan Lin @janjancl]

Immigration & Apocalypse is #21 in Immigration Policy books. A deep dive in Christian nationalist language, America's history of exceptionalism & exclusion using Revelation, Columbus to Trump. Pic of New Haven's apocalyptic layout, covered in the book. https://t.co/fbWM6qTeEC