Ke Kauoha Hou - The New Testament / Hawaiian - English bilingual / Hardcover - Black / American Bible Society 1960 / Hawaiian & Eng. Parallel NT 253DI / With parallel passages  

HISTORICAL PRINT!  Only 2000 Printed in 1960

Hardcover 1960

PAGES: 728

PUBLISHER: American Bible Society

LANGUAGE: Hawaiian - English

!!! Condition of this book is USED LIKE NEW !!!

Description:

The New Testament of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, translated out of the original greek, and with the former translations diligently compared and revised.

Ke Kauoha Hou a ko kakou Haku e Ola'i a Iesu Kristo, ua unuhiia mai ka olelo helene a ua hoopoopono hou la

A Hawaiian language translation was completed by New England Christian missionaries including Reverends Hiram Bingham, Asa Thurston, Lorrin Andrews, and Sheldon Dibble from 1800-1850. The Gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John) were translated in 1828. The rest of the New Testament was translated in 1832, the Old Testament was translated in 1839, and the translation was revised in 1868.

As recent research indicated, 25% of this version of the Bible was translated by Thurston, 20% by Bingham (who also did the coordination), 14% by Artemas Bishop (who later became a prominent missionary to Honolulu and was responsible for the first revision), and the rest by others.

As the Kingdom of Hawaii was toppled in the 1893 overthrow and became a United States territory, the Hawaiian language was banned in schools and was spoken less. However, in the second half of the 20th century, there was a Hawaiian language revitalization in which people became more interested in the native language, and more parents started to send their children to Hawaiian language immersion schools.

In the early 21st century, under the Hawaiian Bible Project supported by Partners In Development Foundation, the Hawaiian Bible called Ka Baibala Hemolele (the Holy Bible) was published in 2018 in print and electronic forms, using the Hawaiian text of the 19th century, but re-edited in modern Hawaiian orthography, using the diacritical marks, such as ʻOkina and Kahakō.