Hagiographa Definition & Meaning

Origin of Hagiographa

Late Latin from Late Greek from neuter pl. of hagiographos written by inspiration, scriptural Greek hagio- hagio- Greek -graphos written (from graphein to write –graph)

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

But this translation was not written all at once, and its history is obscure; we only know from the prologue to Ecclesiasticus that the Hagiographa, and doubtless therefore the Psalter, were read in Greek in Egypt about 130 B.C. or somewhat later.'
The most convenient edition is in Lagarde, Hagiographa chaldaice, 1873.
The threefold division of the canon just given is recognized in the Talmud, and followed in all Hebrew MSS., the only difference being that the books included in the Latter Prophets and in the Hagiographa are not always arranged in the same order.
The terms used, however, do not show that the Hagiographa was already completed, as we now have it; it would be entirely consistent with them, if, for instance, particular books, as Esther, or Daniel, or Ecclesiastes, were only added to the collection subsequently.
The Law was the first part to be definitely recognized as authoritative, or canonized; the " Prophets " (as defined above) were next accepted as canonical; the more miscellaneous collection of books comprised in the Hagiographa was recognized last.

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