Actually, the book of Maccabees was NOT part of the original Hebrew scriptures. I do not believe that is has ever been part of the Hebrew scriptures. The Reformation went back to the original Hebrew books. I know I will get several responses from Roman Catholics trying to say I am wrong on this. That is ok. I will let them post all they want. I am not here to argue - just to suggest that you do your own diligent research and not just take someone’s word. I hestitated to even mention it because that will likely mean an additional 500 posts to this thread to add to the thousands of other posts on this subject.
If you do accurate, non-emotional research, this is what you should find - that Maccabees were never in the Hebrew bible, or the scripture that Jesus and the writers of the New Testament knew as God’s Word. The book probably has lots of good and interesting things it in - it just was not inspired or breathed out by the Holy Spirit.
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Analogous: The Histories of Tacitus are an interesting read, and may be very accurate, but to include them in a volume of Scripture would be doubleplus ungood.
What date and origin are you using for the official canon of “the original Hebrew scriptures”?