one of the most curious passages currently found in the mt of Jeremiah 26–45 is Jer 33:14–26, a long oracle that not only conflicts with the Supplement's critique of Jerusalem's sacral institutions but is also wholly absent from the LXX tradition. Some scholars maintain that the editors of the LXX deliberately left this passage out of their developing text or that the omission was the result of haplography. The dominant position, however, is that the oracle is a later addition to earlier versions of the MT of Jeremiah and was not part of an earlier edition of the book. The pressing questions are threefold: when was this text composed, when was it redacted into the MT, and why is it not also reflected in the LXX?

Many commentators have ascribed this composition to a very late date, understanding the oracle as legitimization of the Zadokite eclipse of the Davidic line and dating the passage to a time after Ezra/Nehemiah. Some have gone so far as to say that it was composed to address the rise of the Hasmoneans in the second century BCE. Adopting these positions requires a similar position regarding a fairly late date for the oracle's introduction into the MT and therefore advancing the argument that the MT continued to develop through the Hellenistic period after the LXX had reached a fixed status.