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HANUKKAH , a Jewish festival, the " Feast of See also:Dedication " (cf. See also:John x. 22) or the " Feast of the See also:Maccabees," beginning on the 25th See also:day of the ninth 'See also:month Kislev (See also:December), of the See also:Hebrew ecclesiastical See also:year, and lasting eight days. It was instituted in 165 B.c. in See also:commemoration of, and thanksgiving for, the See also:purification of the See also:temple at See also:Jerusalem on this day by Judas Maccabaeus after its pollution by See also:Antiochus Epiphanes, See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king of See also:Syria, who in 168 B.C. set up a See also:pagan See also:altar to See also:Zeus Olympius. The Talmudic See also:sources say that when the perpetual See also:lamp of the temple was to be relighted only one See also:flask of See also:holy oil sufficient for the day remained, but this miraculously lasted for the eight days (cf. the See also:legend in 2 Macc. i. 18). In memory of this the See also:Jews See also:burn both in synagogues and in houses on the first See also:night of the festival one See also:light, on the second two, and so on to the end (so the Hillelites), or See also:vice versa eight See also:lights on the first, and one less on each succeeding night (so the Shammaites). From the prominence of the lights the festival is also known as the " Festival of Lights " or " See also:Illumination " (See also:Talmud). It is said that the day chosen by Judas for the setting up of the new altar was the anniversary of that on which Antiochus had set up the pagan altar; hence it' is suggested (e.g. by See also:Wellhausen) that the 25th of Kislev was an old pagan festival, perhaps the day of the See also:winter See also:solstice.
For further details and illustrations of Hanukkah lamps see Jewish Encyc., s.v.
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