4 Maccabees isn't in most Bibles, because Jerome didn't translate its heavy and complex Greek into Latin for the Vulgate, and so it never made mainstream circulation. Only some of the oldest and most ancient Christian churches use it - most notably the Georgian Orthodox Church ( Read more... )

An introduction to the biblical book of Jonah; I've expanded this page and re-released it.

God punishes Jonah with a storm and has a monstrous fish eat him, until he relents and preaches to the city of Nineveh that it will be destroyed. He didn't want to, because he didn't think it would be destroyed, and he didn't want to be a false prophet. ( Read more... )

A new page! Joshua, Judges, Ruth, 1 and 2 Samuel, 1 and 2 Kings, 1 and 2 Chronicles, Ezra and Nehemiah together make for a very unhappy period, although many of the stories told are not truly historical.

Here's the contents of the page "The Bible's History Books Covering 1100-950 BCE".

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