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What are the similarities between Book 1 and Book 2 of Maccabees in the Bible?
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The two books, 1 Maccabees and 2 Maccabees are both included in the Catholic Bible. Whereas 1 Maccabeesattempts to be a straight-forward history of the Maccabaean period of the second century BCE, 2 Maccabees places events of approximately the same period in a supernatural context.
2 Maccabees describes how God sent his angels in the form of fantastic horsemen dressed in gold armour, to run down the enemies of the Jews and to throw thunderbolts.
Unfortunately, the author of 1 Maccabees knew nothing of the themes in 2 Maccabees, although he seems to have lived at about the same time and wrote of approximately the same historical period. Given that the supposed divine interventions, while awe-inspiring, were of a relatively impractical and improbable nature, the more secular account of 1 Maccabeesmust be considered more reliable than that of 2 Maccabees.
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