The Books of Maccabees tell the Hanukkah story through excitement, intrigue, and bloodshed: so why aren’t they in the Hebrew Bible? https://momentmag.com/bible-edit-hanukkah/
Moment MagazineWho Edited Hanukkah Out of the Bible?Why are the Maccabees—the account of the Jewish insurrection celebrated at Hanukkah—included in the Christian Bible, but not the Hebrew one?