Haweis's New Testament

The Haweis New Testament stands among the distinctive evangelical English New Testaments of the eighteenth century, a period in which individual translators increasingly ventured beyond the received King James Version to render scripture in the idiom of their own day. Its scope is limited to the New Testament, translated from Greek, with the Greek New Testament serving as its base text. It is classed as a fresh translation rather than a revision, guided throughout by a philosophy of readable evangelical vernacular. Among its distinctive features, it aims at accessible contemporary expression while remaining recognizably traditional, so that familiar cadences are not wholly displaced by the pursuit of clarity. It belongs to a broader current of private and devotional translation work associated with the evangelical revival, in which preachers and scholars sought to place the text before ordinary readers in language they could readily follow.