Preserving the Dead Sea Scrolls

Reading the hebrew bible is like walking through a library or a museum, lots of materials from over a thousand different years of israelite history. The method and the process by which the books were compined and compiled has its own complicated history that isn't preserved in manuscript witnesses. It's mostly you have to look for clues within the books,. So i showed you a few of them earlier. And so what the scholars paying attention to is more clues like that. This is an early form of cross referencing, i to other other parts of the bible as good servation. But most likely, at some point, going back to jeremiah chapter ten, this extra material was likely marginal