Scrolls show us that the Septuagint translators were following closely their own Hebrew texts of Jeremiah. These differences between the two texts of Jeremiah were likely already in some early Hebrew texts.9 Hence, these two versions of Jeremiah are not merely distinct editions. Both texts are unique books in their own right. Furthermore, both books were part of communities that in all likelihood accepted them as canonical in the late postexilic period. They show that the composition of a biblical