Hagiographa

pl.n. Bible (used with a sing. or pl. verb)
The Writings.

[Late Latin, from Late Greek, from neuter pl. of hagiographos, written by inspiration, scriptural : Greek hagio-, hagio- + Greek -graphos, written (from graphein, to write; see -graph).]

(lit. "Holy Writings"). The third and last section of the Hebrew Bible, known in Hebrew as Ketuvim, "the Writings." The Hagiographa include the Books of Psalms, Proverbs, Job, the Five Scrolls (megillot: Song of Songs, Ruth, Lamentations, Ecclesiastes, Esther), Daniel, Ezra, Nehemiah and Chronicles. The Hagiographa was the last part of the Hebrew Bible to be canonized, and the Talmud records debates about the inclusion or exclusion of various books, such as the Song of Songs and the Book of Esther.

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("holy writings")

A term designating the third and final division of the Hebrew Scriptures, the "Writings". The Hebrew Bible, whose order differs from the sequence of most English Bibles (which instead follow the Greek) includes in this section: Psalms, Proverbs, Job, Song of Songs, Ruth, Lamentations, Ecclesiastes, Esther, Daniel, Ezra-Nehemiah and I-II Chronicles.

The Hagiographa was the last part of the OT to be canonized, the status of some books still being debated in the late 1st century A.D. The NT does not refer to the Hagiographa as a group, although the normal designation of the OT scriptures as "the Law and the Prophets" appears once as "the Law of Moses and the Prophets, and the Psalms" (Luke 24:44).

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The noun has one meaning:

Meaning #1: the third of three divisions of the Hebrew Scriptures
  Synonym: Writings

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