Judith Koren

Judith Koren is a professional freelance researcher based in Israel.

In the 1980s she collaborated with Yehuda D. Nevo, an archaeologist based at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, on the historical research connected with his archaeological findings. The result was a work called "", which presents a "revisionist" theory of the origins and development of the Islamic state and religion, based on archaeological remains found and excavated by Nevo in the Negev desert in Israel.

The main underpinnings of the book's thesis derive from the archaeological sites excavated and from a corpus of early Arabic inscriptions found in them, each of them published separately - the archaeological remains in "Pagans and Herders" and the corpus of inscriptions in "Ancient Arabic Inscriptions from the Negev".

Other work by Koren derived from this research has been published in the book "Quest for the Historical Muhammad", edited by Ibn Warraq.

Works (Selection)

*"Crossroads to Islam : the origins of the Arab religion and the Arab state", Yehuda D. Nevo and Judith Koren, Prometheus Books, Amherst, NY, (2003) ISBN 1-59102-083-2