Page:Biblical Libraries (Richardson).djvu/203

 archival collection called "library," both at Jerusalem, at about the same time, half way between Alexander and the New Testament times, and one in a way leading to the other or at least standing in the same chain of events.

It was in the reign of Antiochus Epiphanes. In spite of the fighting inch by inch by the orthodox Jews, Greek influence had by this time (175 B.C. sq.) won its way everywhere outside of Judea and, as a culture distinguished from religion and institutions, had a very general hold even there. During a struggle for the high priesthood, between Jason and Menelaus, one after the other, purchased the aid of Antiochus by money, aid and zeal in Hellenizing. To this latter end permission was secured to "establish a gymnasium and ephebian and to register (anagraph) the Jerusalemites as Antiochians." The College was built at the foot of the Acropolis and the "high priest