[Avodah] What do we believe about the Kesuvim?

[Mordechai Harris via Avodah]

Is there a source which can be cited within Rabbinic literature for the
idea that the Ketuvim were written with Ruach HaKodesh? I know that
assumption is common, but Josephus is the earliest source that I'm aware of
who makes that claim, and he's not exactly within the classic Rabbinic
cannon. (Link to Josephus - look at paragraph 8 where he claims they are
Divine and note that he only has 22 books in Tanach...
http://earlyjewishwritings.com/text/josephus/apion1.html)

It was my impression from the discussion in the Gemara of whether or not to
include certain texts in the Cannon, that the criteria was simply - "does
this contain an eternally relevant and essential Torah message for the
Jewish people". Those things that did not were simply cut in the same
fashion as the many Neviim who only prophesied for their local/temporal
communities didn't make it into the cannon of Neviim. To make it there,
some aspect of the Nevuah needed to be eternally relevant to the Jewish
people across time.

- Mordechai
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