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The story of Hanukkah is not in The Bible. When the war between the Jews and the Syrian-Greeks occurred in 165 BCE, the Hebrew Bible was already written.

The Story of Hanukkah is recorded in the Apocryphal book of the Maccabees and in the Talmud (Shabbat 21b).

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