u/Doctrina_Stabilitas

Honestly one of the coolest little surprises downtown especially since the post-Covid updates. It’s not as artistic as the ones in Little Canada at yonge/dundas but it does show the city well

Like we have pretty good confidence that the LXX version of Jeremiah is the earlier of the two text types, but we translate the bible out of the Masoretic text.

Doesn't this imply that the masoretes have some sort of divine role in transmitting scripture if we choose the later version without footnotes in bible translations

In the TGC commentary on Jeremiah this is somewhat noted: https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/commentary/jeremiah/

>the Greek translation of the book (the Septuagint, or “LXX”) is approximately one seventh shorter than the Hebrew text that has come down to us (known as the Masoretic Text, or “MT”). Most of the additional words in the MT are short phrases that clarify or fill out Jeremiah’s message. Only a few long paragraphs (33:14–26; 39:4–13; 51:44b–49a; 52:27b–30) are found exclusively in the MT. Thus, while some scholars find slight nuances to be different (e.g., MT seems slightly more pro-Babylonian than LXX), the message of the two editions is basically the same. Most scholars believe the LXX was translated from an earlier Hebrew edition of the book, before the Hebrew text reached the form now preserved in MT.

So like even evangelicals scholars view these sections as not part of the original text, but they're not footnoted at all in the same way we do with Mark

Though this is the station off McGrath in Somerville and the one before it is under 4 dollars so idk how this place isn’t a front for the mafia or something