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Tag: Greek Texts
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Hanukkah’s Confounding Miracle
AJ Berkovitz
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Jewish Review of Books
· 22 Dec 2022
The story of Hanukkah, as most modern Jews know it, involves the victory of the Maccabees over the Greeks and the miracle of the oil that lasted for eight days.