the main characteristics of the LXX,37 demonstrating that the varying versions to some extent existed in Hebrew texts. Sven Soderlund38 categorized earlier scholarly proposals to explain these variations, viz.: (1) “The abbreviation theory” (i.e. the Greek text is an abbreviated or mutilated version of the Hebrew; so K. H. Graf, C. F. Keil, and C. von Orelli); (2) “the editorial theory (i.e. the two texts derive from two different editions of the book produced by Jeremiah himself, the shorter version