SIDEBAR 8: 1 ENOCH 1 Enoch is not Apocrypha as defined for this book (because it is not accepted as Scripture by modern Catholics, and I do not have space to do it full justice), but it still relates to our inquiry, since it speaks to whether or not the…
2 MACCABEES The good news for those of us who are lazy (i.e., all of us) is that all the work we just did on 1 Maccabees is about to pay immediate bonus dividends: we have already compared the evidence for 1 Maccabees against 1 Chronicles, and 2 Maccabees is…
1 MACCABEES 1 Maccabees is a historical book telling the story of the Maccabean revolt. 1 Maccabees is only very rarely quoted or referenced by the Church Fathers in the era of early Christianity. … As 1 Maccabees has very little to say about the martyrs, it correspondingly was not…
