The First Book of Maccabees is a book written by a Jewish author after the restoration of an independent Jewish kingdom, probably about 100 BCE. It is included in all Christian Bibles ("canons") except most Protestant ones. Jews and most Protestants regard it as generally reliable historically, but not a part of Scripture. These Protestants usually call such religious books "Apocrypha". Some people call "deuterocanonical" the books received in Greek and regarded as part of the Holy Scripture by some Christian Churches, like 1 Maccabees.