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This third collection was called from the first by the Jews, "Ketubim," meaning simply writings; the Greeks afterward called it by a name which has been anglicized, and which has become the common designation of these writings among us, "The Hagiographa," or the Holy Writings.
The reckoning of the Canon is interesting: there are five books of Moses, thirteen books of the prophets, recording the history from the death of Moses to the reign of Artaxerxes, and the remaining four books, the Ketubim, contain hymns to God and precepts for the conduct of human life.
The explanatfon of this curious phenomenon is not difficult. The last group of sacred writings, what the Jews call the Ketubim, was kept open for additions to a very late day. So they tore the book in two, and put the last part of it into the growing collection of "Ketubim," or "Writings."
By and by there were requests that this first part the Chronicles be admitted to the Ketubim.
It is found, instead, among the Ketubim, the later and supplementary writings of the Hebrew Bible. It is strange also, as I have intimated, that no mention of Daniel or of his book is found in the histories of the Exile and the return, or in any of the prophecies uttered in Israel after the return.
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