Bible Dictionary: Hagiographa

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Easton's Bible Dictionary

The holy writings, a term which came early into use in the Christian church to denote the third division of the Old Testament scriptures, called by the Jews Kethubim, i.e., "Writings." It consisted of five books, viz., Job, Proverbs, and Psalms, and the two books of Chronicles. The ancient Jews classified their sacred books as the Law, the Prophets, and the Kethubim, or Writings. (see BIBLE.)

In the New Testament (Luke 24:44) we find three corresponding divisions, viz., the Law, the Prophets, and the Psalms.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (n. pl.) The last of the three Jewish divisions of the Old Testament, or that portion not contained in the Law and the Prophets. It comprises Psalms, Proverbs, Job, Canticles, Ruth, Lamentations, Ecclesiastes, Esther, Daniel, Ezra, Nehemiah, and Chronicles.

2. (n. pl.) The lives of the saints.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

HAGIOGRAPHA

hag-i-og'-ra-fa.

See BIBLE; CANON OF THE OLD TESTAMENT.

Library

Appendix v. Rabbinic Theology and Literature
... equally attached to the sayings of the prophets, and even, though perhaps in a still
inferior degree, to the Hymns,' as the Hagiographa generally were called ...
/.../the life and times of jesus the messiah/appendix v rabbinic theology and.htm

The Books of Samuel and Kings.
... To the third class belong the Hagiographa, of which the first book begins with Job,
the second with David, whose writings they divide into five parts and ...
/.../jerome/the principal works of st jerome/the books of samuel and.htm

Names and External Form of the Old Testament
... great classes, the Law, the Prophets, and the Writings; that is, the canonical writings
not included in the other two divisions"the Hagiographa (holy writings ...
/.../barrows/companion to the bible/chapter xiii names and external.htm

Daniel.
... that Theodotion's version, not the LXX., was read in the Churches, and that the
book was reckoned by the Jews not among the prophets but among the Hagiographa. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/jerome/the principal works of st jerome/daniel.htm

Number and Order of the Separate Books.
... The Talmudic order of the Hagiographa is Ruth, Psalms, Job, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes,
Canticles, Lamentations, Daniel, Esther, Ezra, Chronicles. ...
/.../davidson/the canon of the bible/chapter iv number and order.htm

The Canon from Semler to the Present Time, with Reflections on Its ...
... Songs would not have been assigned to Solomon; Jonah would have been separated from
the prophets, and Daniel must have had a later position in the Hagiographa. ...
/.../davidson/the canon of the bible/chapter xi the canon from.htm

The Canon.
... About the same time the third group of the Old Testament Scriptures, "The
Hagiographa," or "Writings," began to be collected. No ...
//christianbookshelf.org/gladden/who wrote the bible/chapter xi the canon.htm

The Samaritan and Alexandrian Canons.
... we cannot be sure that the other books which the Therapeutae read as holy besides
the law, the prophets and hymns, differed from the hagiographa, and so ...
/.../davidson/the canon of the bible/chapter iii the samaritan and.htm

Letter ii. In My Last Letter I Said that in the Bible There is ...
... a difference as amounts to a diversity; and between both the one and the other,
and the remaining books comprised under the tithe of Hagiographa, the interval ...
/.../coleridge/confessions of an inquiring spirit etc/letter ii in my last.htm

Chapter i.
... Alle pentateuchos, ta kaloumena Grapheia, para tisi de Hagiographa legomena (Iesou
tou Naue, biblos Kriton meta tes Rhouth, Paraleipomenon a', b', Basileion a ...
/.../an introduction to the old testament in greek additional notes/chapter i 2.htm

Thesaurus

Hagiographa
... 2. (n. pl.) The lives of the saints. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia. HAGIOGRAPHA.
hag-i-og'-ra-fa. See BIBLE; CANON OF THE OLD TESTAMENT. ...
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Psalms (44 Occurrences)
... In Luke 24:44 the word "psalms" means the Hagiographa, ie, the holy writings, one
of the sections into which the Jews divided the Old Testament. (see BIBLE.). ...
/p/psalms.htm - 54k

Deutero-canonical
... Matthew's Bible they were not only separated from the others but they were prefaced
with the words, "the volume of the book called Hagiographa." In Cranmer's ...
/d/deutero-canonical.htm - 14k

Deuterocanonical
... Matthew's Bible they were not only separated from the others but they were prefaced
with the words, "the volume of the book called Hagiographa." In Cranmer's ...
/d/deuterocanonical.htm - 14k

Targum
... of His Targum (2) The Targum of Jonathan ben Uzziel on the Prophets Characteristics
of His Targum-Earlier Prophets; Later Prophets (3) Hagiographa: Psalms, Job ...
/t/targum.htm - 38k

Chronicles (45 Occurrences)
... Gob (2 Samuel 21:18), etc. The Books of Chronicles are ranked among the
khethubim or hagiographa. They are alluded to, though not ...
/c/chronicles.htm - 60k

I-iii
... Lamentations from Jeremiah. The threefold division of the books, into Law, Prophets,
and other sacred Writings (Hagiographa), is old. It is ...
/i/i-iii.htm - 31k

Introduction (3 Occurrences)
... Lamentations from Jeremiah. The threefold division of the books, into Law, Prophets,
and other sacred Writings (Hagiographa), is old. It is ...
/i/introduction.htm - 33k

Daniel (74 Occurrences)
... NEBUCHADNEZZAR.). Daniel, Book of. Is ranked by the Jews in that division of
their Bible called the Hagiographa (Hebrews Khethubim). (see ...
/d/daniel.htm - 79k

Books (16 Occurrences)
... In the past, men have cited this passage as an account of the framing of a canon
of Scripture-the canon of the Prophets, or of the Prophets and the Hagiographa...
/b/books.htm - 101k

Subtopics

Hagiographa

Related Terms

Psalms (44 Occurrences)

Deutero-canonical

Deuterocanonical

Targum

Chronicles (45 Occurrences)

I-iii

Introduction (3 Occurrences)

Daniel (74 Occurrences)

Books (16 Occurrences)