[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?

[Buggman]

No, that's a supposition that is put forth by some Christian scholars to try to explain why Matthew attributed the prophecy of Yeshua being sold for thirty pieces of silver to Jeremiah when it's obviously referencing Zechariah 11. What was actually happening is that Matthew was citing both the Zechariah passage and two other passages from Jeremiah (18 and 31, IIRC) all at the same time.

I've not heard of the DSS version of Jeremiah being significantly shorter before, so I'll have to look into that and get back to you. On the face of it, however, I'd have to ask, "How do they know?" Given the disintegrated nature of the DSS, how are they discerning that Jeremiah was actually shorter rather than just 1/7th of it was turned to dust?

Shalom