The Second Scroll

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The Second Scroll is a 1951 novella by the Jewish-Canadian writer A.M. Klein. Klein's only lengthy work of fiction was written after his pilgrimage to the newly-founded nation of Israel in the late 1940s. It concerns the quest for faith in the post-Holocaust world, as a young Montrealer goes in search of his legendary uncle, Melech Davidson.

Klein's novel parallels the biblical story of the Exodus from Egypt, with the modern Jewish immigration to Israel after the war being compared to the original Exodus story. It is arranged in "books" (Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Dueteronomy), with each book loosely based on its equivalent from the Torah, and in the Jewish Talmudic tradition, several glosses further the ideas of each book at the end of the novel.

Also called Dueteronomy. The word is derived from duetero which means second and nomy which means law.