1 Maccabees is one of the deuterocanonical books of the Bible. 2 Macc is not a sequel to 1 Macc. In fact, 2 Macc tells many of the same stories from a slightly different perspective than 1 Macc.

Their story is detailed in two ancient texts, Maccabees 1 and Maccabees 2 . Here’s a fun twist: these books didn’t make the cut into the Hebrew Bible but found a home in the Catholic Old ...

Be all of you subject to one another (1 Peter 5:5), having your conduct ... as Job and Tobit and Esther and Judith and the two books of Maccabees, and the two of Esdras . . . . Then there are ...