Yii-Jan Lin

I am on the faculty at Yale Divinity School and the author of "Immigration and Apocalypse: How the Book of Revelation Shaped American Immigration" (Yale University Press 2024), which 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. I've spoken widely on the topic on podcasts, radio, and in lectures.

I am also the author of "The Erotic Life of Manuscripts: New Testament Textual Criticism and the Biological Sciences" (Oxford 2016). I've published in peer-reviewed journals like the Journal of Biblical Literature and Early Christianity.

I serve on the Council of the Society of Biblical Literature and the editorial board of the Journal of Biblical Literature.

I am a Public Voices Fellow at Yale with the Op-Ed Project.