what can you  tell me about the second short book?
In most Christian canons it is treated as a history book and placed between Judges and 1 Samuel.
Book of Ruth
The Book of Ruth (abbreviated Rth) (, "Megilath Ruth", "the Scroll of Ruth", one of the Five Megillot) is included in the third division, or the Writings (Ketuvim), of the Hebrew Bible; in most Christian canons it is treated as a history book and placed between Judges and 1 Samuel.
who got ate by a whale in the bible UNANSWERABLE who is jonah? He is a prophet in the Hebrew Bible of the northern kingdom of Israel in about the 8th century BCE. what is the above mentioned book? It is the canonical collection of Hebrew scriptures, including the Torah. is there any poetic books too ? Yes, "Sifrei Emet". which are the five scrolls? The five relatively short books of the Song of Songs, the Book of Ruth, the Book of Lamentations, Ecclesiastes and the Book of Esther are collectively known as the "Ḥamesh Megillot" .
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Book of Ruth [SEP] Introduction
The Book of Ruth (abbreviated Rth) (, "Megilath Ruth", "the Scroll of Ruth", one of the Five Megillot) is included in the third division, or the Writings (Ketuvim), of the Hebrew Bible; in most Christian canons it is treated as a history book and placed between Judges and 1 Samuel. The book, written in Hebrew in the 6th–4th centuries BC, tells of a Moabite woman, Ruth, accepting Yahweh, the God of the Israelites, as her God and the Israelite people as her own. In –17, Ruth tells Naomi, her Israelite mother-in-law, "Where you go I will go, and where you stay I will stay.