Using the Hebrew Scripture would have been as ... The Codex Alexandrinus contains all of the Catholic OT Books plus III and IV Maccabees. These manuscripts show that the Septuagint with its ...

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 Testament instead. Why the snub? Perhaps because ...

I’ve often described the soldiers of the Israel Defense Forces as “modern-day Maccabees,” invoking ... and Jerusalem’s Hebrew University, he holds a doctorate in Hebrew literature.