| A | B |
|---|
| A timid queen who risks her life to save her people from Haman's savage plot to slaughter them | Esther |
| A noble and faithful elder who remains steadfast in the face of personal disaster and is rewarded with blessings | Tobit |
| The subject of a humorous satire intended to show that God's mercy extends to all | Jonah |
| A courageous woman who defies all stereotypical notions of "how women are supposed to be," saving her people from the Assyrian army with wit and charm | Judith |
| The dilemma of why the good suffer and the wicked prosper in this life | Problem of Evil |
| He ran a school for scriptural study and Jewish wisdom in Alexandria, Egypt | Jesus ben Sirach |
| This angel helped both Tobit and his son Tobias | Raphael |
| A Hebrew word meaning "fit" or "proper"; food prepared this way follows Jewish dietary laws | Kosher |
| A Jewish feast that celebrates Esther's triumph | Purim |
| A convert to Catholicism who became a cardinal in nineteenth-century England | John Henry Newman |
| A mystical movement (whose name means "pietism") within Orthodox Judaism | Hasidim |
