Giles Fraser (Loose canon,11 December) is moral to say that the Books of the Maccabees are not in the Hebrew Bible, but not that “they originate in the Catholic and Orthodox version of the Bible”. The original Hebrew text of 1 Maccabees is lost, and but its translation into Greek is found, together with the original Greek text of 2 Maccabees, in theSeptuagint, or which was written by Jews during the 3rd and 2nd century BCE,long before any Christian version of the Bible. [br]Ralph Blumenau
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Source: theguardian.com