Hey Guys,
I know some Jewish Christians and they say that Hanukkah is not a true Old Testament ceremony as celebrated today. They say it is a tradition that started after around 168 B.C. These Jewish Christians only celebrate biblical holidays from the scriptures, like the feast of Passover, sukkot, dedication and such. They said that they do not consider Maccabees, from which this celebration originates, sacred scripture. So it is not a God authored celebration.
According to them, this Jewish holiday commemorates the rededication during the second century B.C. when it is said that the Jews rose up against their Greek-Syrian oppressors in the Maccabean Revolt. According to legend and some ancient sources, Antiochus IV Epiphanes outlawed the Jewish religion and ordered the Jews to worship Greek gods. In 168 B.C., his soldiers descended upon Jerusalem, massacring thousands of people and desecrating the city’s holy Second Temple by erecting an altar to Zeus and sacrificing pigs within its sacred walls. There was also a great miracle seen. None of this is in scripture so they assert that it cannot be biblical.
I would tend to agree since the bible alone is our authority on biblical ceremonies and feasts.