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Re: Question re LXX, DSS and MT
>This is a general question. If it has already been asked,
>answered, and discussed on this list (to which I am new)
>my apologies.
>
>Are there any instances where the translation found in the
>Septuagint (LXX) is demonstrably based on the text of the
>Hebrew Bible as found in one of the Dead Sea Scrolls (DSS)
>rather than as found in the Masoretic Text (MT)?
>
>Thank you.
>
>Steven Winnett
>
The texts of Jeremiah found at Qumran are similar to LXX; closer to it than
to MT.
But of course those more expert than myself may have read it differently.
Jim West