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