BIBLICAL LIBRARIES
Jews refortify the city, demanded of them their authority for so doing and were informed that it was a certain decree of Cyrus. Thereupon Tattenai wrote Darius "if it seems good to the king let there be search made in the house of the king's treasures which is there at Babylon whether it be so that a decree was made." "Then search was made in the house of books where the treasures were laid up in Babylon and there was found at Achmetha in the palace ... a roll." This "house of books" is the archive-library. "The house of books" where the document was found and the "treasure house" of the king are both translated by Jerome as "bibliotheca." The LXX translates both as "bibliophylactery" or "book-keep"—the "book-ward" or place where books are kept, as robes are kept in a ward-robe. This latter as well as the former is a common term for archive and
the librarians of these are "book war-
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