BIBLICAL LIBRARIES
for what—architectural meaning did it have if not this? Such splendid provision for those who could not enter the temple area was certainly not for mere pleasure strolling. Really the teaching in Solomon's porch and the Middoth location of the room in the south porch are almost conclusive, to one who has just worked the matter out theoretically and then finds these two confirmations.
Under Herod, a central Graeco-Jewish archive was apparently established comparable to those of Alexandria in the same period, or the Hadrian and Nanian libraries, there a little later. It was located, as before said, in the forum near the council house and the temple. The fact of local archives in various centers appears from the "enrolment" of Joseph. This was a general "apograph" a very well known technical term a little later—and for library purposes one does not need to inquire too closely whether this
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