What Do We Do with a Book Like Revelation?

Zoom | September 16 - October 21 | 7:30 pm Eastern | 6 Sessions

The Book of Revelation is a strange book, full of conflicting timelines, bizarre images, and coded language. This course will look at the many different ways to read and interpret this ancient text by analyzing its historical and literary context and exploring the many different ways people have used the book.

The 6 sessions will occur on September 16, 23, 30, and October 7, 14, and 21 at 7:30 pm Eastern on Zoom.

Register once for all 6 sessions.

Dr. Yii-Jan Lin is an Associate Professor of New Testament, who concentrated her scholarship on textual criticism; the Revelation of John, critical race theory, gender and sexuality, and immigration. 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. For more information go here.