Table of Contents:
  • 1. Erecting the fence : texts, contexts, theories, and strategies
  • 2. Peeping through a hole : comparing and borrowing
  • 3. Building the gate, or Neighbors make good fences
  • 4. The evasive center : Hadrian, the old man, the neighbor, and the rabbinic rhetoric of the empire
  • 5. Between us : a conclusion.