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Hagiographa

NOUN
  1. the third of three divisions of the Hebrew Scriptures

How To Use Hagiographa In A Sentence

  • They fold up the book of the Law in the cloth of the quintanes, and the quintanes in the cloth of the Prophets and Hagiographa: but they do not fold up the Prophets and Hagiographa in the cloth of the quintanes, nor the quintanes in the cloth of the Law. From the Talmud and Hebraica
  • In the Psalms"; that is, in the Book of Hagiographa, in which the Psalms were placed first. From the Talmud and Hebraica
  • Octateuch perhaps may seem to have some reference to the Hagiographa, or From the Talmud and Hebraica
  • And a little after; "They lay the Law upon the quintanes, and the quintanes upon the Prophets and Hagiographa; but not the Prophets and Hagiographa upon the quintanes, nor the quintanes upon the Law": that is, not any one single quintane upon all the quintanes made up into one volume. From the Talmud and Hebraica
  • But are the Hagiographa excluded, when mention is made only of the law and the prophets? From the Talmud and Hebraica
  • Perhaps they might so reject them as to forbid their being read in their synagogues, in the same manner as the Jews rejected the Hagiographa from being read in the synagogues: but the question is, whether they did not use them, read them, and believe them, as the Jews did those holy writings? From the Talmud and Hebraica
  • Hagiographa" (writings held by the ancient Hebrews as less sacred and authoritative than either the "Law" or the "Prophets"), and, in consequence, copyists felt naturally less bound to transcribe its text with scrupulous accuracy. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
  • Kinôth was removed, as a poetic work, from the collection of prophetic books and placed among the Kethúhîm, or Hagiographa, cannot be quoted as a decisive argument against its Jeremiac origin, as the testimony of the Septuagint, the most important witness in the forum of Biblical criticism, must in a hundred other cases correct the decision of the Masorah. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent
  • They preferred the Law before the Prophets, and the Law and the Prophets above the Hagiographa, or holy writings: and yet they yielded that honour to the Prophets, that even they should not be read but standing up. From the Talmud and Hebraica
  • Octateuch perhaps may seem to have some reference to the Hagiographa, or From the Talmud and Hebraica
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