Samuel Tobias Lachs, ‘Humanism in Talmud and Midrash’

Originally published in Journal of Jewish Studies 46. Samuel Tobias Lachs, Humanism in Talmud and Midrash. Associated University Presses, London, 1993. 150 pp. £24.50. Lachs squarely admits in the Preface that his book is selective, an anthology of statements in the Talmud and Midrash which reflect, in the terms used by the author, an anthropocentric rather than…