This article pretty much summarizes alot of what Rabbi Hershberg was referencing; however, no scripture exists as it was during the “400 Years of Darkness” prior to Christ’s arrival. Easy reading.

https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/ancient-cultures/ancient-israel/antiochus-epiphanes-the-bibles-most-notoriously-forgotten-villain/

“Hanukkah was always a time where Jewish people were expressing their hope for the Messiah to come. That was a time that they were hoping that the light of the world would come, and what better time to express that than the Festival of Lights?”