Tanakh, anacronym derived from the names of the three divisions of theHebrew Bible:Torah (Instruction, or Law, also called the Pentateuch),Neviʾim (Prophets), andKetuvim (Writings).

The Torah contains five books:Genesis,Exodus,Leviticus,Numbers, andDeuteronomy. The Neviʾimcomprise eight books subdivided into the Former Prophets, containing the four historical worksJoshua,Judges,Samuel, andKings; and the Latter Prophets, the oracular discourses ofIsaiah,Jeremiah,Ezekiel, andthe Twelve (Minor) Prophets—Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi. The Twelve were all formerly written on a single scroll and thus reckoned as one book. The Ketuvim consist of religious poetry and wisdom literature—Psalms,Proverbs, andJob, a collection known as the “Five Megillot” (“scrolls”; i.e.,Song of Songs,Ruth,Lamentations,Ecclesiastes, andEsther, which have been grouped together according to the annual cycle of their public reading in the synagogue)—and the books ofDaniel,Ezra and Nehemiah, andChronicles.