Alan Humm

Graduate Student in Religious Studies at the Univ. of Pennsylvania
Home Phone: 610/352-1695

Picture of Alan Humm Research Interests:
  • Christianity & Judaism in the Hellenistic Period
  • Social & Psychological context of prophetic activity
  • Textual Criticism
  • Papyrology
  • Magic & Demonology in Judaism and Christian History
  • Image processing
  • Computer textual analysis and manipulation

Courses

Current

Intro. to the Hebrew Bible (St. Joseph's)
Intro. to the New Testament (St. Joseph's)

Past

Bible Era Myths (Albright)
Introduction to Christianity (Penn)
Computing and the Humanities (Penn)
The Creation and End of the World (Albright)
Devils and Demons in the Western Traditions (Albright)
Magic and ritual power (Albright)
Religion in Literature (Albright)
Religions of Asia (Albright)
What is Religion? (Albright)
Women in the Biblical World (Albright)
World Religions (Rutgers at Camden)

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Topical Pages I maintain

Adam and Eve Temptation pictues
 Ancient Jewish Views of Jesus
The Lilith Page

 On-line primary literature useful for Biblical Studies

Sampling of Ancient Near Eastern Treaties and Contracts

 Sampling of Interpretations of the Song of Songs

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Other Links

Search Engines and Collection Sites
Bauer's Orthodoxy and Heresy [in progress]
Other people's home pages
Academic Links
Music Links
Extremely Misc. Religion

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Last Modified December 17, 1998
Alan Humm
humm@ccat.sas.upenn.edu

Thanks to Salman M. Sajid for the caligraphic name gif and the improved presentation for my portrait