KJV Bible with Apocrypha The Apocryphal books are usually grouped in with the Old Testament, both for thematic and chronological reasons. The Apocrypha generally consists of 14 booklets of which 1 and 2 Maccabees and 1 Esdras are the main documents and form the bulk of the apocryphal writings. First Maccabees is an historical account of the struggle of the Maccabee family and their followers for Jewish independence. Second Maccabees covers the same ground but dramatizes the accounts and makes