Thomas Haweis New Testament Haweis NT

Who made it?

Thomas Haweis, Anglican clergyman and chaplain to the Countess of Huntingdon.

Why was it made?

To render the New Testament in direct English rather than simply revise the Authorized Version.

How did it develop?

Published in 1795, Haweis’s New Testament belongs to the stream of independent English translations that appeared alongside the dominant KJV.

What source texts did it use?

Greek New Testament available to late eighteenth-century scholarship