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By Andrew G. Shead

This monograph examines the interpretation means of the Septuagint of Jeremiah 32 and the character of the differences among Greek and Hebrew types of its textual content. In a self-discipline the place equivocal facts are usually used to generate novel texts, Shead makes an attempt to restrict the subjectivity of his effects by means of grounding the examine in a textlingustic research of discourse markers in Jeremiah. the implications recommend that the present scholarly consensus in regards to the precedence of the textual content underlying the Septuagint is exaggerated, in view that way more of the difference among the 2 texts than hitherto said is haplographic. this is often quantity 347 of the "Journal for the learn of the hot testomony" complement sequence and quantity three of the subseries "Hebrew Bible and its Versions".

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But the main source of confusion about the speaker of the BtF lies in the fact that the 'dispatch' (a part of the committal) can be repeated as part of the delivery. A good example of this is Jeremiah 21. The identities of the speakers are straightforward on one level, with occurrences of mn1 DM and the BtF to be spoken by Zedekiah's envoys. However, in vv. 3, 8 and 11 Jeremiah prefaces the oracle proper with a 'dispatch' plus a BtF: attempts to read him this way fail, then the theory of the piecemeal compositor will be so much the stronger.

Initially this unit presents the same features as Jeremiah 7: WGF + ~\n$h> + divine speech (v. '). 1 2 3 3B-5A 5B nARRATOR yhwh 'hERE '"yhwh'" jEREMIAH 'jEREMIAH' The point of departure is v. 5b, where Jeremiah suddenly becomes the narrator, using a first-person wayyiqtol verb of speaking. 59-61 (third-person wayyiqtol). We must assume that this was perfectly acceptable to the author,35 which leaves us with two initial ques- 34. Verse 2 is extremely difficult, with the plural IJJDtS followed by the plural crraT) (so HUB; BHS has Drmm with Cod.

49 There is a strong emphasis on the identity of the words spoken then to Jeremiah and the words now written down; we may note also that Baruch is mentioned in v. 3. (8) Two particular difficulties can be avoided with awareness of the relationship between 'dispatch', committal and delivery. First, the assumption that if YHWH says mm ~1QK HD he must be referring to words previously stated becomes unnecessary; secondly, and as a result of this, there is no need to attribute BtFs to the narrator in an attempt to avoid Koharenzstörungen.

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