THE CALL OF JEREMIAH by DAVID TUDOR ... - David T Williams

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This is particularly the case as the events had vindicated Jeremiah
and shown the falsity of others (cf Lm 2:14).
Similar considerations apply to Jeremiah 27-8 which is totally in prose,
belonging mainly to Mowinckel's B source and partially to C. Again
Nicholson (1975:28), despite attribution to Deuteronomic authors,
claims unquestioned historicity. He considers Jeremiah 27-9 as a
separate unit (Nicholson 1970:93). Lack of redactional activity and the
early date suggested by this means that the section is of particular
value. There is no difference in ideas from other passages whether
prose or poetry. The whole discussion in Jeremiah is then from a time
close to him. The passage is considerably shorter in LXX due to the
omission of odd words which do not however affect the meaning. A
prose passage is of course more subject to textual loss than a poetic
one, but perhaps more likely has been addition by MT as elsewhere
(cf Jr 23:16). (Cf also section 1.5.2.) One notable omission from LXX is
Jeremiah 29:16-20 which includes a reference to God sending
prophets (Jr 29:19), but as the idea is repeated elsewhere, this not
significant.
False prophecy was clearly a problem to Jeremiah due to references
in undoubtedly authentic oracles (eg Jr 2:8 etc), but the bulk of the
material is prose so regarded as later.
False prophecy appears to have been a major problem