L/V 10+ Tip of the Day #303 Verse mapping and Jeremiah materials

MJ. Smith

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When users think of verse-mapping, how Logos resolves the differences in versification between the various translations, they usually think of the simple things like adding 1 (or subtracting 1) from the Psalm number because of the difference in the division in the Masoretic and LXX psalters, or the adding 1 to verse depending on whether or not the header for a psalm is considered a verse.

However, the Jeremiah materials provide much more fun. The include Jeremiah + Lamentations + Baruch + Letter of Jeremiah + 4 Baruch all of which are some kind of canonical somewhere. Trivia:

• Codex Vaticanus includes Jeremiah + Baruch + Letter of Jeremiah with no breaks between them
• There are at least two major sequences in which the text of Jeremiah appears
• The Vulgate has Baruch as a six chapter book containing Baruch and the Letter of Jeremiah
• The LXX and Peshitta has Baruch as a five chapter book with Letter of Jeremiah as a separate book
• The Ethiopians have Jeremiah which contains Jeremiah + 5 chapter Baruch + Lamentations 1:1-5:5 + 4 Baruch + Lamentations 5:6-22

All that is assuming I have pieced the relevant information together correctly as much of it is hidden in footnotes.

For Jeremiah proper, the Lexham Bible Dictionary provides a chart on the order of the pieces inside Jeremiah.

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Outline of Jeremiah
Masoretic Text (MT; Hebrew):

• Prologue (ch. 1)
• Oracles against Judah and Jerusalem (chs. 2–25)
• Prose narratives about Jeremiah (chs. 26–29)
• The Book of Comfort (chs. 30–33)
• Prose narratives about Jeremiah (chs. 34–45)
• Oracles against foreign nations (chs. 46–51)
• Epilogue concerning the fall of Jerusalem (ch. 52)

Septuagint (LXX; Greek):

• Prologue (ch. 1)
• Oracles against Judah and Jerusalem (2:1–25:12)
• Oracles against foreign nations (25:13–32:38 LXX [25:13a; chs. 46–51; 25:13b–38 MT])
• Prose narratives about Jeremiah (chs. 33–36 LXX; [chs. 26–29 MT])
• The Book of Comfort (chs. 37–40 LXX; [chs. 30–33 MT])
• Prose narratives about Jeremiah (chs. 41–51 LXX; [34:1–39:3; 39:14–45:4 MT])
• Epilogue concerning the fall of Jerusalem (ch. 52)

Logos navigates through this seamlessly leaving it to Text Comparison to draw attention to the curiosities:

Even when verses aren't present in both sequences:

And verse mapping even handles the text being in different books

In fact, the beauty of verse-mapping is that you can navigates between versions without noticing the resolution of references behind the scene -- except for the occasional forum post asking why the chapter/verse numbers they entered are not where they ended up.