Fireside Chats with Local Authors: Yii-Jan Lin

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Adults, Everyone

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Join us for readings and discussions with local authors in front of the fireplace in our Reading Room!

This week we will be joined by local author Yii-Jan Lin, author of Immigration and Apocalypse: How the Book of Revelation Shaped American Immigration. Her book traces the metaphor of America as the Book of Revelation’s heavenly New Jerusalem from colonization through the present. The book shows how biblical, apocalyptic narratives have been used to exclude unwanted immigrants as God’s enemies.

For more information on the book, visit https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300253184/immigration-and-apocalypse/

About the author:

Yii-Jan Lin is Associate Professor of New Testament at Yale Divinity School.

 

Registration is not required to attend this IN PERSON event.