Two Biblical Books On One Page

A Midsummer Tempest, xvi.

"'Theology will scare the savage off who'd gladly hear Christ's simple words of love, while Joshua's more fitting for a soldier...'" (p. 142)

"Jennifer breathed something which caused him to straighten, fiery-visaged, dry-mouthed, and resolute as a Maccabee." (ibid.)

I have read some Christian propaganda giving advice on how to evangelize members of other religions. Thus, the Sikh scripture, the Granth, is a collection of hymns so give them the Psalms etc. Poul Anderson's Sword-of-the-Lord Gerson thinks that Joshua is appropriate for soldiers. I suggest the Bhagavad Gita but my reading of scriptures is not confined to the Bible.

Joshua is about conquest whereas the Apocryphal Maccabees, to whose title characters Sword-of-the-Lord is compared, are about national defense and self-determination.

Maccabees

The Day Of Their Return.

"[Ivar's] self-importance had crumbled while he talked, until he could not admit he had ever seen himself as a Maccabee." (4, p. 106)

Is this another Andersonian use of the Bible?

On the one hand yes but on the other hand no:

The Maccabean story is preserved in the books of the First and Second Maccabees, which describe in detail the re-dedication of the Temple in Jerusalem and the lighting of the menorah. These books are not part of the Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) which came from the Jewish canon; however, they were part of the Alexandrian canon which is also called the Septuagint (sometimes abbreviated LXX).^[33] Both books are included in the Old Testament used by the Catholic and Orthodox Churches,^[34] since those churches consider the books deuterocanonical. They are not included in the Old Testament books in most Protestant Bibles since most Protestants consider the books apocryphal.
-copied from here.