The Catholic OT Canon includes - Tobit, Judith, Wisdom, Sirach, Baruch, I and II Maccabees - plus sections of Esther and Daniel which are absent from the Protestant OT.

Flannery O’Connor is No Vague Catholic – Fr. Damian J. Ference, Dappled Things. Who Were the Maccabees? – Dr. Taylor Marshall, Canterbury Tales. Science Finally Seems to be Catching Up to ...

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 ...

Maccabees rebelled during time between testaments. ... and the beginning of Matthew is a position that has its roots in the 16th-17th century debates between the Roman Catholic Church, ...

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 ...

“So the Maccabees are respected from a military and political standpoint but not so much from a religious standpoint.” The Very Rev. Michel J. Sis, bishop of the Catholic Diocese of San Angelo ...

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 ...

A post shared on X claims that 14 books were removed from the Bible in 1684. Verdict: False The “apocrypha” is still present in Catholic and Orthodox Bibles. Protestant Bibles have gradually ...

Though standard in Catholic Bibles, the Book of Maccabees is not included in the Hebrew Bible for several reasons. RELATED: In time for Hanukkah, archaeologists reveal battle-scarred stronghold ...