[Elsie]

...the alleged care does not explain the variants in the LXX and in the Qumran scrolls.

Someone had obscured their minds with TRADITION; perhaps?

[Mad Dawg]

Classic!

So when you say
Then those JEWISH scribes went to a HELL of a lot of trouble to be sure that the WORD was COPIED down right when they made new scrolls!

You don't mean Jewish scribes, you mean, "the sample of Jewish scribes which I can use to support my contention"?

Some of you guys are funny.