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Collection Overview
Abstract
Minister of the Christian Reformed Church; teacher of Greek at Calvin College; Bible teacher at Lynden Christian High School in Lynden, Washington; and translator. The collection includes lecture notes from Calvin Theological Seminary and topical files., including an account of a trip to Palestine in1931.
Biographical Note
William was born in Sheldon, Iowa. As a young man he was a student at Orange City, Iowa, Christian School and the Northwest Academy and Junior College. He received his AB from Calvin College in 1932 and graduated from Calvin Seminary in 1935.
William K. Reinsma was a minister in the Christian Reformed Church, a teacher in Christian schools, and a translator of Dutch books.
He served in Bejou, Minnesota, 1936-1941; Lebanon, Iowa, 1941-1945; Raymond, Minnesota, 1945-1958; Ada, Michigan, 1948-1951; Oskaloosa, Iowa, 1951-1956; Lynden, Washington, 1956-1959; and Everson, Washington, 1962-1965. While he served in Ada he taught Greek at Calvin College and from 1959-1962 he was a Bible teacher at Lynden Christian High School.
When Reinsma retired he translated Dutch books into English for Heritage Hall. He had almost completed the translation of A. Kuyper's De Engelen Gods when he passed away on March 4, 1986. He was survived by his wife Hilda (De Boer) and their three children.
He preached with clarity and communicated well with young people.
Box and Folder Listing
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- Series 1: Articles and Notes
- Box 1
- Folder 1: "Dutch-American Family Records in Michigan" --- c.1967
- Folder 2: "Calvin College Collections and Family Records" --- c.1967
- Folder 3: "Goel passage in Job 19:25-27" --- n.d.
- Folder 4: History of the Science of New Testament Introduction, mimeographed material --- c. 1934
- Folder 5: Lower and Higher Criticism, mimeographed material --- c. 1934
- Folder 6: The Minor Prophets, handwritten --- c. 1934
- Folder 7: Old Testament Eschatology in the Pre-Mosaic Period, mimeographed material --- c. 1934
- Folder 8: Old Testament Exegesis, Servant of Jehovah in Isaiah, mimeographed --- c. 1965
- Folder 9
- Item 1: Old Testament Prophets, by Jack Devi --- 1910
- Item 2: Copy of 1917 syllabus
- Folder 10: Zechariah 4, by M. Wyngaarden --- c. 1934
- Folder 11: Handwritten radio messages in notebook --- [undated]
- Folder 12: Report on trip to the Holy Land by M.J. Wyngarden --- 1931
- Folder 13: Report of visit of Miller to Calvin Seminary; four groups of scholars --- January 24, 1947
- Folder 14: Sketch of Isaiah 42-43, handwritten notes --- n.d.
- Folder 15: Trip to Palestine [incomplete] --- June 1931
