Ka Baibala Hemolele - How the Hawaiian Bible Was Made
Ka Baibala Hemolele, the Hawaiian Bible, is the most ambitious literary project ever undertaken in the Hawaiian language. Translated in the 1830s directly from Hebrew, Greek, and Aramaic by teams of missionary scholars and esteemed Hawaiian chiefs, historians, and orators, its original copy spaned over 2,300 pages. But how was this achievement accomplished?