I’ve often described the soldiers of the Israel Defense Forces as “modern-day Maccabees,” invoking the larger-than-life image of the Chanukah superheroes as a way to compliment today’s ...

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 ...

We usually speak of Maccabees in the plural, because the five brothers delivered their blows best as a clenched fist. Americans grow up on the Lone Ranger, on Superman and his fortress of Solitude ...

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 ...