Parkhill Books specialises in books concerning the early history and origin of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. This website gives links to the latest most informative and outstanding works. The links take you to the relevant Amazon page for each book.

Religion plays a huge part in human affairs. Some might say it plays the most important part!

Religious beliefs are largely based on what ancient holy texts say about what people said and did and what happened thousands of years ago, how a religion started, and its early history. In the case of Islam we go back 1400 years, Christianity 2000 years, and Judaism, over 3000 years.

Modern historical research and archaeology can also tell us about people and events all that time ago. The books listed reveal where the ancient texts can be questioned; events did not happen in the way described, and the texts themselves were subject to fallible human beliefs and political factors current at the time they were created.

Here are examples of what you could learn:

Extracts from: The Bible Unearthed: Archaeology’s New Vision of Ancient Israel by Israel Finkelstein (Author), Neil Asher Silberman (Author), Free Press, 2001

Extracts from: The Oxford History of the Holy Land by Robert G. Hoyland (Editor), H. G. M Williamson (Editor), OUP Oxford, 2023  – 1. The Birth of Israel by Avraham Faust