Columbus and the Quest for Jerusalem

Carol Delaney received an MTS from Harvard Divinity School and a PhD in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Chicago. She is now a professor emerita at Stanford University and a research scholar at Brown University. Delaney is the author of several books, including 'Abraham on Trial: The Social Legacy of Biblical Myth.'

'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 '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 of the United States 'A welcome reappraisal of Columbus and his legacy' Kirkus Reviews