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JEFFREY (KAPALI) LYON, PH.D. University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Department of

EDUCATION University of Hawaiʻi, Hilo M.A. in Hawaiian Language and Literature (summa cum laude) 2012 Thesis: "Ka ʻŌlelo Kumu o kā Davida Malo Moʻolelo Hawaiʻi" (2 vols., in Hawaiian) Prolegomena and critical text of Davida Malo's Moʻolelo Hawaiʻi

University of California, Los Angeles PH.D. in Near Eastern Languages and Literature (summa cum laude) 1991 Dissertation: Syriac Gospel Translations A detailed comparison of the Old Syriac Gospes with the Greek vorlage in an attempt to establish both the date and the translation techniques of the Old Syriac

University of California, Los Angeles M.A. in Near Eastern Languages and Literature (summa cum laude) 1979 Emphais: Classical and Semitic Languages Languages studied: Biblical, Rabbinic, and Modern Hebrew. Classical Arabic,Judeo-Arabic, Greek, Latin, Syriac, Biblical Aramaic, Palestinian Jewish Aramaic, Ugaritic

Biola University, La Mirada CA B.A. Humanities (summa cum laude) 1975 Major in Ancient Greek and Biblical Literature Areas of Concentration: Hellenistic Greek, Textual Criticism, Hebrew, and Biblical Literature

TEACHING EXPERIENCE University of Hawaiʻi, Mānoa Assistant Professor (tenure track), Department of Religion 2010 - present Courses taught: • Graduate Seminar in Hawaiian Religion (5x) • Understanding World (2x) • Understanding the Old Testament (5x) • Understanding the New Testament (5x) • Understanding (1x) • Apocalyptic Literature (2x) • Life and Teachings of (2x) • Understanding Religion (2x) • New Testament Greek (advanced) (1x) • Biblical Hebrew (beginning and advanced) (2x) Tutorials (Independent studies) • Classical Hebrew (4x) • Classical Arabic (2x) • Classical Syriac (1x) • Readings from the Quran (in Arabic) (2x) JEFFREY (KAPALI) LYON, PH.D. PAGE 2

• Readings in Hawaiian history and religion (in Hawaiian) (2x) • in the Pacific (1x) • Hawaiian concepts of being (1x) • Christian Missions in the Pacific (1x)

University of Hawaiʻi, Hilo Lecturer, Department of Anthropology 2007 Courses taught: • Ancient Hawaiian Civilization (pre 1819) Nāwahīokalaniʻōpuʻu Hawaiian Immersion school, Keaʻau, Hawaiʻi Volunteer Instructor 2007-2009 Courses Taught • Latin (taught in Hawaiian, including developed of Hawaiian language curriculum) • English literature Antelope Valley College, Lancaster, California Adjunct Faculty 1989-1992 Courses Taught: • Biblcal Hebrew • Latin • Bible as Literature, •

TECHNICAL EXPERIENCE The Capital Group Companies, Irvine, California Senior Systems Analyst 1998 - 2009 Senior develooper/analyst on a wide range of software development projects for a major financial firm, including some technical course development and education for software development staff

NetCount, Hollywood, California Senior Software Engineer 1997 – 1998 Product development for startup net analytics company

Hughes Aircraft Corporation, El Segundo, California, Edwards AFB, California Project Engineer 1983 - 1997 Senior developer of radar analysis software

PUBLICATION Ka ʻŌlelo Kumu o kā Davida Malo Moʻolelo Hawaʻi Prolegomena and Critical Text of Davida Malo's Moʻolelo Hawaʻi, University of Hawaiʻi Press, Honolulu, HI 2016

The Moʻolelo Hawaiʻi of Davida Malo (with Charles Langlas), Introduction, critical Hawaiian text, new translation with notes of Malo's Moʻolelo Hawaiʻi University of Hawaiʻi Press, Honolulu, HI 2016

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The Making of the Baibala The background and history of the making of the Hawaiian translation of the Bible, Palapala, A journal for Hawaiian language and literature1 2015

ʻŌlelo Malihini: An analysis of the sentences in "The Alphabet" A translation and analysis of the earliest Hawaiian Palapala, A journal for Hawaiian language and literature1 2015

Davida Malo, Nathaniel Emerson, and the Sins of Hawaiians A critical analysis of N.B. Emerson's Hawaiian Antiquities Hūlili - A Journal for Hawaiian Wellbeing 2009

Malo's Moʻolelo Hawaiʻi: The Lost Translation The discovery and analysis of an early and unpublished English translation of Malo's Moʻolelo Hawaiʻi The Hawaiian Journal of History

Davida Malo, Nathaniel Emerson, and the Sins of Hawaiians A critical analysis of N.B. Emerson's Hawaiian Antiquities Kamehameha School Press, Honolulu, HI 2009

Un Unpublished Paper of Davida Malo concerning Keōpūolani (with Charles Langlas) Hawaiian text, translation, and analysis of one of Malo's unplublished essays Hawaiian Journal of History 2008

Nā Nūpepa o ka 1834 (māhele 7) Text, translation, and notes from the first Hawaiian language newspapers Ka Hoʻoilina (Journal), Honolulu, HI 2007

Nā Nūpepa o ka Makahiki 1892 (māhele 7) Text, translation, and notes from the Hawaiian language newspapers just before the overthrow Ka Hoʻoilina (Journal), Honolulu, HI 2007

The Rise of Constitutionalism - Hawaiʻi (edited by Robert Stauffer) Translation into Hawaiian of preface and introduction 2006 - 2007 K.G. Saur Verlag of Munich, Germany.,

Nā Nūpepa o ka Makahiki 1834 (māhele 6) Text, translation, and notes from the first Hawaiian language newspapers Ka Hoʻoilina (Journal), Honolulu, HI 2006

Artes Lātinae (levels 1 and 2) (originally developed by Waldo Sweet A Complete Latin Course on DVD Bolchach-Carducci Publishers, Wauconda, Illinois ver. 2, 2004

Syriac Gospel Translations: A comparison of the language and translation method used in the Old Syriac, the Diatessaron, and the Peshitto Volume 88 in Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium

1 Palapala - A Journal for Hawaiian language and literature, published by the University of Hawaiʻi Press, is scheduled for publication in 2015. I am currently the editor. JEFFREY (KAPALI) LYON, PH.D. PAGE 4

Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium 1994

Artes Lātinae (levels 1 and 2) (originally developed by Waldo Sweet A Complete Latin Course on CD Bolchach-Carducci Publishers, Wauconda, Illinois ver. 1, 1994

LANGUAGES English - native language Hawaiian - speak, read, write Hebrew - read (formerly fluent speaker) Latin, Greek, Aramaic, classical Arabic - reading knowledge Spanish, French, Italian - moderate reading with dictionary German, Maori - simple reading with dictionary

UNIVERSITY SERVICE Faculty Search, Department of Classics (2013) Faculty Search, Department of Religion (2012) Department of Religion, Curriculum Chair (2011-present) Department of Religion, Undergraduate Advisor (2013) Co-organizer and contributor for first three conferences on Hawaiian Literature Served or chaired 6 REL M.A. committees and 4 outside Ph.D. committees since 2010

MEMBERSHIPS Founder and editor of Palapala - A Journal for Hawaiian Language and Literature Society of Biblical Literature American Academy of Religion

RESEARCH INTERESTS Hawaiian Language and Literature Bible translation in Classical Hawaiian Religion Aramaic in the Gospels Syriac Literature Foreign Missions in Hawaiʻi and the Pacific