[BenKenobi]

I presume he doesn’t regard maccabees as scriptural. I could be wrong about that...

[CynicalBear]

Well, smvoice would be correct in that according to the RCC. Up until the Reformation the Apocryphal books were not part of the canon. The Apocryphal "writings were not officially declared to be divinely inspired, and included in the Catholic canon of Scripture as such, until 1546 at the Council of Trent.

I’m currently studying that whole deal and am finding some rather compelling reason they were not part of cannon. It seems there are many problems fitting them with other scripture.