Carol Delaney received an MTS from Harvard Divinity School and a Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Chicago and is a graduate of Boston University. She is now a professor emerita at Stanford University and a research scholar at Brown University.
"""A decidedly different approach to the man who discovered
America." -"The New York Post"""
"A brazen attempt to construct a parable for our times."
--"Booklist"
"Carol Delaney's "Columbus and the Quest for Jerusalem"...elegantly
tells a familiar story--with a twist...The result is a revealing
new view of Columbus." "Times Literary Supplement, Books of the
Year"
"A dramatic story with repercussions that could reach the heavens."
--"Washington Post"
"A new and provocative interpretation of Columbus. Carol Delaney
uses her training as a cultural anthropologist to brilliantly
explicate Columbus's strange, apocalyptic world. By being more
sensitive to the differentness of the past than most historians,
she has written a remarkable work of history, and one that is
utterly accessible." -- Gordon S. Wood, author of "The Idea of
America: Reflections on the Birth fo the United States"
"A welcome reappraisal of Columbus and his legacy." --Kirkus
Reviews
"Brilliant. Enlightening. The surprise here is not that a vaunted
academic like Delaney has written such a deeply researched take on
the Columbus legacy, but that she does so with page-turning style,
effortlessly transporting the modern reader into the minds and
motivations of 15th-century Europe." -Martin Dugard, author of "The
Last Voyage of Columbus"
"Everybody knows the story of Columbus, right? Wrong. For far too
long, writers have chosen to ignore one of Columbus's most powerful
motivations: religion. In this exhaustively researched and
engagingly written account, Carol Delaney reveals the remarkable
extent to which Columbus sailed across the Atlantic not just to
reach the other side but also to hasten the Christian recapture of
Jerusalem -- and help bring about the end of the world. This is a
fascinating and important book." - Toby Lester, author of "The
Fourth Part of the World"
"This absorbing book adds a new and penetrating chapter to the long
history of Jerusalem. But it does so by recapturing some
fascinating and critical information about another iconic figure,
namely Christopher Columbus who - Delaney makes clear - sailed
west, but had Jerusalem on his mind the whole time. Carefully
documented and well crafted, the book reads like a superb
historical novel. Columbus himself nearly steps off the pages, and
when we are finished we know him much better than we have before,
including his idiosyncrasies, delusions and uncanny maritime
skills." --Harvey Cox, author of "The Future of Faith"
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