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.

If you were to pick up a Catholic Bible, like the New American Bible ... Tobit, Judith, 1 and 2 Maccabees, Wisdom, Sirach, and Baruch. There are also parts of other books, such as Daniel and ...

The Protestant Bible consists of only 66 books ― 39 books in the Old Testament and 27 books in the New Testament. The Catholic (i.e ... and 1 and 2 Maccabees ― what Protestants call the ...