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 ...

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 ...