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Hawaiian Bible, The New Testament in the Hawaiian LanguageDescription
Ke Kauoha Hou A Ko Kakou Haku E Ola’I A Iesu Kristo, I Unuhia Mai Ka Olelo Helene; A Ua Hooponopono Hou Ia. Or the New Testament in Hawaiian published 1871. (3rd Edition).
The Reverend Hiram Bingham I (1789 – 1869) and his wife arrived on the Island of Hawaii in 1820 and then sailed on to Honolulu on Oahu. Bingham designed the Kawaiaha’o Church in Honolulu between 1836 and 1842 but he is most famously remembered for his work translating the New Testament Bible into Hawaiian. In 1840 they were recalled to New England over concern that he was interfering to often in Hawaiian politics. He died in 1869 but his son Hiram Bingham II also became a missionary to Hawaii.
The First Hawaiian book - “On the first Monday in January, 1822, the first sheet of the first book ever print in Hawaiian came from the mission press at Honolulu. It was a spelling book, and did hardly more than reveal to Mr. Bingham the difficulty of his task, for it required a full six months of concentrated study before the second sheet of this spelling book was printed. Ten years after the arrival of missionaries some ten millions of pages had been printed on the mission press – mostly books of Scripture. At the twenty-fifth anniversary of the American Bible Society (May 13, 1841) the Rev, Hiram Bingham thrilled the audience by presenting to the Society a copy of the whole Bible in Hawaiian, the result of fifteen years of labor.”
The American Bible Society is an inter-confessional, non-denominational, nonprofit organization that was founded in 1816 in New York City which still today publishes, distributes and translates the Bible and provides study aids and other tools to help people engage with the Bible.Created By
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August 25, 2024Update Date
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