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Re: Jeremiah 26 in Septuagint and BHS

From: Jim West <jwest AT Highland.Net>
To: Moon-Ryul Jung <moon AT computing.soongsil.ac.kr>
Cc: b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu
Subject: Re: Jeremiah 26 in Septuagint and BHS
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 08:18:29 +0000

At 09:25 PM 2/23/99 +0000, you wrote:
>I recently started to read Jeremiah 26 in BHS, and I compared it
>with the same chapter in Septuagint. It turned out that the two chapters
>were talking about different things. I found similar discrepancy in
>some other chapters. Could anybody explain it to me?
>
>Moon-Ryul Jung

The chapters are numbered differently in LXX and MT (in some places). In
your LXX you should have a chart which shows the appropriate chapter numbers
if you wish to compare the MT and the LXX.

Best,

Jim

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Jim West, ThD
Quartz Hill School of Theology

jwest AT highland.net
http://web.infoave.net/~jwest

Jeremiah 26 in Septuagint and BHS, Moon-Ryul Jung, 02/23/1999
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
- Re: Jeremiah 26 in Septuagint and BHS, Peter_Kirk, 02/24/1999
- Re: Jeremiah 26 in Septuagint and BHS, Jim West, 02/24/1999