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Footnotes

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These and other cases are examined in Empirical Models for Biblical Criticism, edited by Jeffrey H. Tigay (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1985). The present article is adapted from one of Professor Tov’s chapters in that volume.

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Different manuscripts of the LXX vary somewhat. I will be referring to the oldest Greek manuscripts. Later LXX manuscripts, such as the one used in Origen’s Hexapla, have been “corrected” toward the MT.

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In. this case, as with other inconsistencies, it is possible to explain them away; one or the other description could plausibly be an exaggeration in the context.