`The City of David' brings an ancient civilization back to life

The Boston Globe | November 10, 1991| | Copyright

Then, in the hearing of all the people, Baruch read the words of Jeremiah from the scroll, in the house of the Lord, in the chamber of Gemariah the son of Shaphan the secretary, which was in the upper court, at the entry of the New Gate of the Lord's house. -- Jeremiah 36:10

Biblical personages, especially such a minor character as Gemariah, are so remote it is sometimes hard to believe they actually existed. But one hot summer day in Jerusalem in 1982, a volunteer in an archeological dig was cautiously cleaning the floor of a building destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar's army in 586 BCE (Before the ...

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