Object Record
Metadata
Accession number |
P5 |
Title |
The Bible, translated into Hawaiian. KA PALAPALA HEMOLELE A IEHOUA KO KAKOU AKUA |
Date |
1838 |
Notes |
According to tradition, the Hawaiian Islands were settled during the tenth century by Polynesian voyagers from Samoa. Captain James Cook discovered the islands in 1778 during his third and last voyage around the world. In the early years of the nineteenth century Christianity was brought to Hawaii by missionaries from America. As with other Polynesian tongues, the alphabet is made up of only twelve letters, AEIOUWHKLMNP. Translations of the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, and John were printed in Rochester, New York, in 1828-29. A complete New Testament in Hawaiian was printed on the island of Oahu in 1832, and the entire Bible was produced in Honolulu in 1837-39 for the American Bible Society. The translators were missionaries of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, including Hiram Bingham, Asa Thurston, and William Richards. |
Collection |
Framed Bible Leaves |
Subjects |
Bible Leaves Bible History Native American |