“There was a man in the land of Uz, his name was Job...” says the Old Testament. Here is the land of Uts, on the next street. Here is the man Job - Artur Chisoev, for no apparent reason, deprived of his family, property, and health. He is Jacob, ready to fight all night with the one whose name is forbidden. And the new prophet, Alexander Petrovich, an old geography teacher, looks at Iron Arthur, not knowing whether to blame or sympathize. For a stone knife has been sharpened, and an ancient idol, carved from a log, thirsts for blood... The story “Birthright” is part of the new book “The Fortress of My Soul” by Henry Lyon Oldie and Andrei Valentinov, which is being prepared for release by the publishing house “Azbuka” (IG “Azbuka” -Atticus") in September 2013. The book consists of three stories - stories where two realities collide: the current and the Old Testament. Mystic? No, a conflict between two value systems, two views on human life.