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By Leah Silvieus ’21 M.A.R. As a Chinese American child of immigrants, Assistant Professor of New Testament Yii-Jan Lin ’14 Ph.D. had always been somewhat aware of how one’s personal context shapes one’s understanding of texts. This awareness, however, was cast into sharp relief when, in graduate school, she received a poor grade from a professor who assumed, just by looking at her name, that she was incapable of doing well in the class. Lin has written widely about the influence that concepts of race and ethnicity have on reading and interpretation practices. 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. Her forthcoming book,

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