klutedavid
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The book, like the other Books of the Maccabees, was not included in Masoretic Hebrew canon, the Tanakh. It was included in the Greek Septuagint, known as the Alexandrian canon. For this reason, Jews and Protestants reject most of the doctrinal issues present in the work, while Catholics and Eastern Orthodox consider the work to be deuterocanonical and part of the Bible. Some Protestants include 2 Maccabees as part of the biblical apocrypha, useful for reading in the church. Article VI of the Thirty-Nine Articles of the Church of England. (2 Maccabees.wiki)Sorry I do not believe these are scripture they are apocryphal. Do you know why?
How would you know whether the two books (Maccabees) or anyone else for that matter know?
Your just tagging along behind a tradition based on what the Jews believe about the Septuagint.
The Septuagint is the genuine article, the original Old Testament. Both the eastern Orthodox and the Catholics were spot on. They both heavily followed church tradition which means they received, that same Old Testament. Down through the centuries they exclusively used only the Septuagint.
Don't pay any attention to the Protestants. They arrived far too late in Church history and the canon was accepted and established. In fact, the canon was decided over a thousand years before the Protestants first appeared on the map. The Septuagint was the official Old Testament in that canon.
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