All Christians - Catholic, Orthodox and Protestant - agree that the Books in the Bible are the inspired, ... The Codex Alexandrinus contains all of the Catholic OT Books plus III and IV Maccabees.

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. 1 ...

In fact, the New American Bible is made up of the same 39 books as the King James version, plus seven other books, namely: Tobit, Judith, 1 and 2 Maccabees, Wisdom, Sirach, and Baruch.

For those who are Protestant, you might not have heard of these books. (Then again, if you’re Catholic, the same may sadly be true.) At best your Bible contains 1 and 2 Maccabees as “apocrypha”.

The First and Second Books of Maccabees (the first originally written in a long-vanished Hebrew version, the second by a Jew in Greek) tell the story of the second-century-B.C.E. Maccabean revolt ...

Specifically, the Catholic canon incorporates seven extra books: Tobit, Judith, the First and Second Books of Maccabees, the Wisdom of Solomon, Sirach (also referred to as Ecclesiasticus), and Baruch.

The Maccabees’s White brothers have been keeping busy since their split. Guitarist Felix White has launched a club night, and Hugo White has moved into production, beginning with Reading crooner ...

A post shared on X claims that 14 books were removed from the Bible in 1684. Verdict: False The “apocrypha” is still present ...

The Rev. James M. Gillis, editor of The Catholic World, has expressed the hope that “in those countries now writhing under the heel of dictators, there were another family of Maccabees to fling ...

Why are Protestant and Catholic Bibles different? —Dana. The Protestant Bible, of which the NIV is one version, is seven books shorter than the Bible used by Roman Catholics.

The Maccabees are a complex, but ongoing symbol of Jewish nationalism. Were they really great ancient warriors, or was their heroism exaggerated? Skip to main content ...