Tales of the Neighborhood: Jewish Narrative Dialogues in Late Antiquity

Preface 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 Notes Index