What is a Hanukkah story?

" Long ago in the land of Judea there was a Syrian king, Antiochus. The king ordered the Jewish people to reject their god, their religion, their customs and their beliefs and to worship the Greek...

There is only one traditional Hanukkah story.Hanukkah is a minor holiday that commemorates the victory of the Jews against the Assyrian-Greeks in the Maccabean War of 165 BCE.The real miracle of...

Hanukkah celebrates the rededication of the Temple in Jerusalem in the 2nd Century BCE(BC) following the Maccabean Revolt and a miracle that took place at that time. The Maccabees were a Jewish army...

Hanukkah is a minor holiday that commemorates the victory of the Jews against the Assyrian-Greeks in the Maccabean War of 165 BCE.The Hebrew Bible was already written by then, so the story is not in...

There is only one traditional story of Hanukkah, which is the story of how the Jews won the war against the Assyrian-Greeks.