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\DeclareFixedFootnote{\fnPalmBranches}{Palms were associated with the 
recapture of Jerusalem in 142 B.C.E. 
We read in the book of Maccabees, 
``the Jews entered in [Jerusalem] with praise and palm branches, 
and with harps and cymbals...'' (1 Macc 13:51). 
So important was this event that the coins from this era 
have the palm frond to represent Jewish victory, 
and when Jerusalem was finally destroyed by the Romans in 70 C.E. 
the new coins show Judea pictured as a weeping woman sitting beneath the palm frond.
}

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