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”.

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.