[Buggman]

That, or the rabbis intentionally inserted "by My Name" in their quotation because they considered that to be the real meaning of the shorter phrase, possibly by way of cross-referencing with Zec. 5:4. Since there are no quotation marks in Hebrew or Aramaic, it's easy to become confused on that point.

On using the LXX to "fix" the Hebrew text, that'd be like trying to reconstruct the "true" Greek NT by using the KJV as a source--or worse, the NIV, since the LXX often paraphrases and interpolates to better explain the text to its audience.

Shalom

[Pollster1]

On using the LXX to "fix" the Hebrew text, that'd be like trying to reconstruct the "true" Greek NT by using the KJV as a source--or worse, the NIV, since the LXX often paraphrases and interpolates to better explain the text to its audience.

I find that a tricky challenge when choosing how to render text into another language. Do you translate word by word even though that sounds clunky in the new language, or do you translate to maintain the overall meaning but flow smoothly paragraph by paragraph? Maintaining the precise meanings and connotations can be hard with either option. I mostly like Young's Literal Translation for study purposes, but I would not recommend it to a new Christian as a Bible for reading. LXX does not tell one what the original said, but a word by word translation often misses the mark by at least as large a margin for anything but scholarly study.

[xzins]

The Book of Jeremiah is now one-seventh longer than the one that appears in some of the 2,000-year-old manuscripts known as the Dead Sea Scrolls. Some verses, including ones containing a prophecy about the seizure and return of Temple implements by Babylonian soldiers, appear to have been added after the events happened.

Wasn't Jeremiah a grouping in some contexts, as when it says "as was said by Jeremiah" and such a statement being in the Jeremiah grouping?