Written soon after the founding of the state of Israel, The Second Scroll is A.M. Klein's most innovative and visionary work. The five -books- of the novel are a modern testament of Jewish experience to which are appended -glosses- or commentaries in the form of drama, epistle, poetry, and psalm. The action centres on a young writer from Montreal, whose search for his legendary Uncle Melech becomes a journey of revelation through Italy, Morocco, and the Holy Land. Dissident and exile, reformer and scholar, Melech is a messianic figure who enacts the destiny of his people and embodies...