The Codex Alexandrinus contains all of the Catholic OT Books plus III and IV Maccabees. These manuscripts show that the Septuagint with its larger and looser canon was the OT "Bible" of the early ...

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.

A post shared on X claims that no Christian considered the deuterocanonical books scripture until the Council of Trent.

Two history Books about the Maccabees which were included in the Christian Bible (and are still in the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Bibles) were considered as to recent two join the Hebrew Bible.

Anniversary of tradition and its emphasis on the place of the Bible and religious freedom. Public observation is the Sunday before October 31. The Catholic and Protestant ... Jews commemorate the ...

Michael Mewshaw's new novel, set in an artists' residency in Granada, is a comic take-down of American policy and its role in ...

"No good tree bears bad fruit, nor does a bad tree bear good fruit. Each tree is recognized by its own fruit. People do not pick figs from thornbushes, or grapes from briers. The good man brings good ...