BIBLICAL LIBRARIES
chives. There is no dispute thus as to the facts.
Where there is no disagreement as to the facts, it looks like hunting for trouble to quarrel about the name for these facts, but there are one or two things which make it worth while in this case not so much to dispute as to try to convert those who eschew the word library and over work the word archive. In the point of view of this essay a library is any collection of books kept for use and an archive is strictly speaking a collection of seldom used public documents. Assyriologists on the other hand, it is alleged, are agreed that a library is nothing less than "an extensive literary collection" or "literary archive," while any ancient collection is an archive. In their point of view all collections are archives; "business archives," "royal archives," "school archives," "temple archives," "palace archives" and "literary archives" or libraries. From the one
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