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ALT Book cover with text: Yii Jan Lin, Immigration Apocalypse: How the Book of Revelation Shaped American Immigration. Two images span the cover, the one above is an illumination depicting the dead waiting in line (R) and angels (L) with the Book of Life, from a Beatus of Liébana Commentary on the Apocalypse; the one below, echoing the image above, is a photograph of a line of asylum seekers waiting in line (R) and border patrol agents (L).
ALT Paul's Letter to the Romans and Christian Theology Conference; Oct 23-25, Princeton Theological Seminary.
ALT Bible in America: "The Bible American Expansion" Call for Papers on recent U.S. activities and statements regarding Central and South America, the Caribbean, Greenland, and Canada, vis a vis biblical themes of expansion, territory, empire, and related topics.
ALT Minoritized Criticism & Biblical Interpretation: "The Stranger": Call for Papers on the 'stranger,' 'foreigner,' and those fleeing disaster in the bible, which can be connected to current actions of ICE, U.S. Homeland Security, and broader global politics driving migration and refuge0seeking. We also want to highlight those reading scripture under authoritarianism and from transnational and noncitizen perspectives.
ALT Flyer for talk: "Immigration and Apocalypse: Trapped within the Walls of the New Jerusalem" 5:30-7pm EST at Penn State and streaming
ALT Book flyer showing cover of Immigration Apocalypse, with panelists Lloyd Barba, Amherst College, Melissa Borja, University of Michigan, Willie James Jennings, Yale Divinity School, Jennifer Kaalund, Independent Scholar, Tat-siong Benny Liew, College of the Holy Cross, Roberto Mata, Santa Clara University, Moderated by Jacqueline Hidalgo, University of San Diego. Co-sponsored by AAR Politics & Migration, SBL Asian and Asian-American Hermeneutics, Bible in America, John's Apocalypse & Cultural Contexts Ancient and Modern, Latino/a/e and Latin American Biblical Interpretation.
ALT Flyer for City Lights Live event, featuring Kyle Smith, Yii-Jan Lin, and Jonathan Rauch. Saturday, April 19, 11am PT/ 2pm ET. Discussing the books Cult of the Dead, Immigration and Apocalypse, and Cross Purposes.
ALT Link preview with image of steel bollards at the U.S.-Mexico border, with the words "I was a stranger and you welcomed me - Jesus" painted in yellow on the bollards. Title of article preview is "Destino apocalíptico: el mensaje contradictorio de la Biblia sobre los migrantes."
ALT Flyer depicting book cover: Immigration & Apocalypse: How the Book of Revelation Shaped American Immigration. Book event Thurs. Jan. 23, 5:30-6:30pm in Sterling Memorial Library Lecture Hall, author Yii-Jan Lin (Yale Div School) in conversation with Dan-el Padilla Peralta (Princeton) author of Undocumented: A Dominican Boy's Odyssey from a Homeless Shelter to the Ivy League. Sponsored by Yale Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity, and Transnational Migration, Yale Divinity School, and ARCHAIA: Yale Program for the Study of Global Antiquity.
ALT Flyer depicting book cover: Immigration & Apocalypse: How the Book of Revelation Shaped American Immigration. Book event Thurs. Jan. 23, 5:30-6:30pm in Sterling Memorial Library Lecture Hall, author Yii-Jan Lin (Yale Div School) in conversation with Dan-el Padilla Peralta (Princeton) author of Undocumented: A Dominican Boy's Odyssey from a Homeless Shelter to the Ivy League. Sponsored by Yale Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity, and Transnational Migration, Yale Divinity School, and ARCHAIA: Yale Program for the Study of Global Antiquity.
ALT 1806 map by Wadsworth showing New Haven town layout of 1748, courtesy of Yale Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library. Yellowed map showing nine-square grid of the city, town green with graves and church in the center, surrounded by twelve squares dotted with houses of leading families.