History prof lands $40K grant

Summary: Calvin history professor Kristin Kobes Du Mez landed a $40,000
research grant from the Louisville Institute to write "The Forgotten Woman’s
Bible."

See full story: http://www.calvin.edu/news/2010-11/forgotten-bible/

Calvin history professor Kristin Kobes Du Mez was recently awarded a $40,000
grant from the Louisville Institute to write a book about the life of Katherine
Bushnell (1856-1946).

Bushnell, an American doctor who worked as a medical missionary in China,
noticed what she thought were mistranslated passages in the Chinese version of
the Bible she was reading. This prompted her, in 1908, to publish "God's Word
to Women: One Hundred Bible Studies on Women's Place in the Divine Economy."
The book is her translation from the original Hebrew and Greek of passages
about women-passages that she believed (because they had been translated by
men) enforced the subjugation of women.

"People who write about her theology rarely situate her historically, and
there are people who write about her reform work who know nothing about her
theology," said Kobes Du Mez of Bushnell. "My job is to piece together the
story of who she is."

Her project, "The Forgotten Woman's Bible," will attempt to do just that.
Kobes Du Mez had an assistant in her research, Calvin junior Jared Warren. The
duo worked together through the 2010 McGregor Summer Research Fellowships in
Humanities and Social Sciences program.

For more info on the project, contact Kobes Du Mez at 616-526-6809.

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Received on Mon Sep 20 11:30:22 2010