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Originally Posted by awareness
Except Bushnell didn't create a translation of the Bible like Julia.
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By herself too I see, quite an accomplishment:
Smith accomplished this work on her own in the span of eight years (1847 to 1855). She had sought out no help in the venture, even writing, "I do not see that anybody can know more about it than I do
A sole female translator, with an ego to match her accomplishment - if there was any bible version which should be biased towards females it should be this one.
The fact that she translated the word "chayil" as virtuous, and not "strong", just as the KJV does, blows Bushnell/Jane's theory about KJV male bias out of the water.
Yet by translating the bible herself, she demonstrated what women are capable of, without resorting to strange conspiracy theories about Satanic male bias. Because of this I think that Smith possibly had more strength and virtue than Bushnell.