Is Nathan Fielder trying to be God, Judah Maccabee, Queen Esther or just a maniacal artist? Episode 5 suggests that all might be true. Spoiler alert: This piece contains plot details about HBO’s ...

The 19th of March is St Joseph’s Day, which in some countries is known as Father’s Day, but who was St Joseph and what do we ...

Praying for the dead is quite biblical. In the Book of Maccabees found in the Catholic and Orthodox Old Testament, Judas Maccabees took a collection for a sin offering for his men who died in ...

“Every excavation in Jerusalem and Judah from the same period has found ... Rosenblum cites a story from the Second Book of Maccabees, which dates to the second century b.c. in which a group ...

The Catholic OT Canon includes - Tobit, Judith, Wisdom, Sirach, Baruch, I and II Maccabees - plus sections of Esther and Daniel which are absent from the Protestant OT. Protestant Christians do ...