in the Hebrew Vorlage that stands behind the Septuagint.57 Thus, rather than deciding which version of Jeremiah is “right,” textual critics should try to determine the final form from which the Septuagint developed and the final form from which the Masoretic Text (and thus, the English Bible) developed. This goal is similar to reconstructing the Ausgangtext since both focus on finding the text that gave rise to the known textual variants. Textual criticism
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