Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)

Question

1. Following the Protestant Reformation of the sixteenth century, Catholic and Greek Orthodox Bibles began to omit the Apocrypha from the biblical canon.
2. A vividly detailed account, the Book of 1 Maccabees describes Jewish struggles against enforced Hellenization.
3. Like Esther, 1 Maccabees narrates Jewish battles against Gentile oppression without referring to miracles or divine intervention.
4. In a final outrage, Antiochus installs an altar to the Greek God Apollo in the Temple sanctuary, rendering it ceremonially unclean.
5. After Syrian troops massacre 1,000 Jews who refuse to defend themselves on the Sabbath, Mattathias and his followers decide that self-defense does not violate Sabbath regulations.

Answer 1

1. FALSE
2. TRUE
3. TRUE
4. FALSE
5. TRUE