Fourth Book of Maccabees

The Fourth Book of Maccabees also called 4 Maccabees or IV Maccabees is a homily or philosophic discourse praising the supremacy of pious reason over passion. It was written in Koine Greek in the first or second century AD. It is not in the Bible for most churches but is an appendix to the Greek Bible and in the canon of the Georgian Orthodox Church. It was included in the 1688 Romanian Orthodox and the 18th-century Romanian Catholic Bibles where it was called Iosip (Joseph).