What came first Christmas or Hanukkah?

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Sarah Johnson answered
It depends on what you mean by christmas. Saturnalia has been around I think before Hanukkah. But there are a lot of pagan feast days that were around the time that christmas is now. Christmas as it's known of today (not the decorations, just the celebration day and name) came after Hanukkah  as it originated somewhere around 400ad.
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Janey
Janey commented
Satrurnalia has nothing to so with either -it celebrates Cronus.
Sarah Johnson
Sarah Johnson commented
Yeah, but I kinda think that Constantine just used the excuse of Christmas to take the place of those other persian and roman holidays that ran from Dec. 17th to Jan 1st. But yes, you are right, they aren't a celebration of the same things at all.
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Janey answered
Hanukkah did, as it's mentioned in the Bible, in Leviticus, but I'm not sure of the exact chapter and verse.
thanked the writer.
Sarah Johnson
Sarah Johnson commented
Hanukkah isn't in leviticus. The time it would've happened would've been in that break of time between the old and new testement.
Sarah Johnson
Sarah Johnson commented
Hanukkah was when the temple was destroyed during the time of the Maccabees.

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