This project involves republishing the Hawaiian Bible in a digital form to increase access for the next generation of Hawaiian language students. This important Hawaiian language resource is now available on the Internet at www.baibala.org.
Searchable image files have been created to preserve the original Palapala Hemolele, published from 1837-39, the Baibala Hemolele published in 1868, and the Baibala Hemolele, published in 1994. These images, as well as searchable text files of the 1994 Baibala Hemolele, are currently available on our website. A searchable text file of the 1994 Hawaiian Bible in the contemporary spelling, (including ‘okina and kahakō), is being added to the site, as individual books are completed. The project is also currently recording an audio track that will soon be placed on the website to assist in pronunciation, cadence and intonation.
Financial support has come from government and charitable funding. A broad fellowship of church, educational, museum, social, and publishing interests have come together to support and encourage the republishing of the Baibala Hemolele.
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John P. Keppeler, II
Program Director
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Jack Keppeler was born and raised in Honolulu. He received a Bachelor of Science in General Agriculture (with Minors in Soils Science & Agronomy, Agricultural Engineering & Business Administration) from Oregon State University. He has held management positions for sugarcane plantation companies on Hawai‘i, Maui, O‘ahu, and Kaua‘i. Jack also managed at the municipal and state levels of local government as the Managing Director of Hawai‘i County and as the Deputy Director of the State of Hawai‘i Department of Land and Natural Resources. He has served as Program Director for Baibala Hemolele since its inception in 2002, and has also been involved with many other Partners in Development Foundation programs, including Ka Hana No‘eau, Kōkua ‘Ohana, and Tūtū and Me.
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Monday, April 16, 2007
Baibala Hemolele: The Hawaiian Bible Project travels to Pacific Northwest to hold workshop series»
Saturday, October 14, 2006 
Honolulu Star Bulletin
New Hawaiian Bible is online »
Thursday, September 27, 2006
Honolulu Star Bulletin
Poetic Hawaiian Bible to be recorded »
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