scriptures, according to this supposition, were eventually adopted by the early rabbinic movement and after that the medieval Hebrew scribes who handed down to us the edition of the Hebrew Bible we now possess. The single archetypal Hebrew text was transmitted with extreme accuracy since the scribes believed these words were the very words of God. Many scholars thus thought of the Septuagint only as a tool for reconstructing certain passages where the Hebrew text was obviously corrupted. For example,