Note: how to divide Tanakh into three types of texts

Categorization of the books of Tanakh into Poetry, Visions and Reality/ History

Reality (615 pages):

Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers Deuteronomy

Joshua, Judges, I Samuel, II Samuel, I Kings, II Kings

Job, Ruth, Esther, Daniel, Ezra, Nehemiah, I Chronicles, II Chronicles

Visions (229 pages): 

Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi

Poetry (154 pages):

Psalms, Proverbs, Song of Song, Lamentations, Ecclesiastes

Where it all started

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