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Chanukah Timeline

336 BCE - Alexander the Great rules Greece
323 BCE - Ptolemies control Egypt and Israel
199 BCE - Selucid Syrian/Greeks conquer Israel
168 BCE - Desecration of Temple
167 BCE - Matitiyahu begins revolt in Modi’in
167 BCE - Matitiyahu dies; Judah Maccabee leads
166 BCE - War against Greeks
166 BCE - Temple recaptured; 
165 BCE - Miracle of oil occurs
165-140 BCE - Jewish war against the Greeks continues

   


 


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