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| In Judaism and Christianity, a solemn and binding agreement or contract between God and his followers. |
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| From the Greek "to scatter"; the dispersion of the Jews from their homeland in ancient Palestine, a process that began with the Babylonian Captivity in the sixth century B.C. and continued over centuries. |
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| The concern with the final events or the end of the world, a belief popular in Jewish and early Christian communities and linked to the concept of the coming of the Messiah. |
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| In Jewish and early Christian thought, the expectation and hope of the coming of God and his final judgement; also closely identified with the last book of the New Testament, Revelation, in which many of the events are foretold, often in highly symbolic and imaginative terms. |
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| A Hebrew word meaning "the anointed one," or one chosen by God to be his representative on earth; in Judiasm, a savior who will come bringing peace and justice; in Christianity, Jesus Christ. |
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| The sacred writings of any religion, as the Bible in Christianity and Judaism. |
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