Job is a formidable work of Hebrew literature. With the only exception of Isaiah, no work in the Bible is written at such a sustained level of powerf… - Paul Johnson

The notion of ‘from each according to his ability, to each according to his need’ was one the Jews adopted before the birth of Christ and always practised even when the community as a whole was distressed.

Los judíos sencillamente suponen la preexistencia de un Dios omnipotente, que actúa pero al que nunca se describe ni caracteriza, y por lo tanto tiene la fuerza y la invisibilidad de la naturaleza misma: es significativo que el primer capítulo del Génesis, a diferencia de las restantes cosmogonías antiguas, armonice perfectamente, en esencia, con las explicaciones científicas modernas del origen del universo, y entre ellas con la teoría de la Gran Explosión.

The Japanese conquest of Manchuria and their full-scale invasion of China in 1937 led to clashes on the badly mapped Soviet-Manchurian frontier. Some of these were serious and involved large-scale tank battles, which the Russians, under Marshal Zhukov, won.