could discover how they were meant to live. All the prophetic works—former and latter—were regarded as accounts of how God had spoken to the people, sometimes through the events of history and at other times through the words of people. But in each case it was the same God, and the same message. This section includes all the remaining books of the Hebrew Bible. They are not all the same kind of works. Psalms, Proverbs and Job are very different from one another in content, for example,