John Hobbins has posted a very nice discussion of Jeremiah 39:3 and the Nabu-sharrussu-ukin temple donation tablet. Of particular interest is John’s reference to the attestations of a title “Sin-magir” in a few Assyrian texts. Some of you will recall that I raised the possibility of the MT’s “Samgar” as a title back in my first post on the topic, but John has done the background work to show that this is not just idle speculation, but actually probable. Please read John’s post for the full scoop; his data and reasoning drive even higher my confidence in the three-official rendering of Jeremiah 39:3.