Many Christians would be better able to understand why the Hebrew nation is so fiercely nationalistic about their homeland if they read this book. This same material appears in the Douay Bible of the Roman Catholic church. Two books that appear in the Old Testament of this bible that are not in the Protestant Old Testament are 1 Machabees and 2 Machabees.
Macabees 1 and 2 are good reading. Talk about a battle.
Here is a link to the UVA Bible site (which has a complex search capacity and browse ability). It contains the Maccabbees.
The search capacity on this site has significantly expanded my familiarity with some of the more obscure details of the bible. (I just went there and it is unfortunately down tonight...the first time I have actually every known it to be down).
But here is the link anyway...
Two books that appear in the Old Testament of this bible that are not in the Protestant Old Testament are 1 Machabees and 2 Machabees.
There's that evil Catholicism of Mel rearing it's ugly head again.
I'd go see it.