hagiographa
IPA: hægiˈɑgrʌfʌ
Root Word: Hagiographa
noun
- (Judaism) The third division of the Hebrew scriptures; the Ketuvim.
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Examples of "hagiographa" in Sentences
- The book of Esther is placed among the hagiographa by the
- The Books of Chronicles are ranked among the khethubim or hagiographa.
- The rest of the Prophets and the Hagiographa are of secondary importance.
- An analogy drawn from the secondary part of the canon, the prophets and hagiographa, is applied without consideration to the primary part, the Torah of Moses.
- The notion of the canon proceeds entirely from that of the written Torah; the prophets and the hagiographa are also called Torah by the Jews, though not Torah of Moses.
- The same writer states (pp. 336, 339) that while Karlstadt classed some of the Apocrypha, as” hagiographa extra canonem,” he called these supplements to Daniel, with the Prayer of Manasses, and others as” plane apocryphos.”