Sarit Anava and crew went looking at the 4QJer MSS, which has Implications on how we reconstruct Jeremiah. 4QJerb called 4Q71 here, and 4QJerd=4Q72a, are like the Greek version. Those came from a sheep. Another one 4Q72b came from a cow and therefore is not for the same scroll as a.
More: if 4Q72b and 4Q70 came from a cow, these came from the cattle part of Judaea - nowhere near Qumran. The cow part of Judaea, then, is the part which enforced the longer Jeremiah which Jews and Protestants insist today.
4Q70 even shows how the enforcers worked: "Jeremiah 7:30–8:3" was, there, added in the margin. How very Mount-Athos Levi.
As an aside, we may be done with the buy-bull era. From now on a forger needs find uninscribed vellum from first-century AD Palestine itself. Or at least from the wider Levant. GLWT.
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