THE GREEK PERIOD
and it is required not only that a certain writing shall be "put on tables of brass and set up within the temple in a conspicuous place" but that "copies ... shall be laid up in the Treasury to the end that Simon and his sons might have them." The archive seems here again to be in the Treasury of the temple and it contained not only documents but the great rolls for "the rest of the acts of John" are written in "the Book of days of his high priesthood," When a little later an archive appears as a separate building it seems to be just outside the temple wall, close to the Maccabean palace but doubtless this represents the public archive of the Greek and Roman administration, not the "library" of Judas nor yet the registry and archive of the High Priest.
At the very time when the Hellenizers of Jerusalem were building their College and Judas Maccabeus was refounding the
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