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For reading or study, this sturdy textbook edition is created for understanding that lasts.This NIV Holy Bible, Textbook Edition has all the features students need to explore the riches of God’s Word. Designed with the help of Christian educators, it offers many study helps and includes the full text of the NIV translation of the Bible. Full-color maps and inserts help you glean important information for understanding what you’re reading. Features: • Book introductions and outlines give an overview of each book of the Bible• 35,000-entry concordance helps you find key verses quickly and easily• 16-page full-color map section for locating important places• Double-column format• Nine-point textbook type• 16-page full-color front inserts offer further understanding of the Scriptures, including: 1. Timeline of captivity and return 2. Between the Testaments 3. The ministry of Jesus 4. Timelines of Old and New Testaments 5. Timeline of kings and prophets of Israel and Judah 6. Lists of Jesus’ miracles and parables

Pascual de Gayangos (1809-97) celebrated Spanish Orientalist and polymath, is recognised as the father of the modern school of Arabic studies in Spain. He gave Islamic Spain its own voice, for the first time representing Spain's 'other' from 'within' not from without. This collection, the first major study of Gayangos, celebrates the 200th anniversary of his birth.Covering a wide range of subjects, it reflects the multiple fields in which Gayangos was involved: scholarship on the culture of Islamic and Christian Spain; history, literature, art; conservation and preservation of national heritage; formation of archives and collections; education; tourism; diplomacy and politics. Amalgamating and understanding Gayangos's multiple identities, it reinstates his importance for cultural life in nineteenth-century Spain, Britain and North America.It is also argued that Gayangos's scholarly achievements and his influence have a political dimension. His work must be seen in relation to the quest for a national identity which marked the nineteenth century: what was the significance of Spain's Islamic past, and the Imperial Golden Age to the culture of modern Spain? The chapters, informed by post-colonial theory, reception theory and theories of national identity, uncover some of the complexities of the process that shaped Spain's national identity. In the course of this book, Gayangos is shown to be a figure with many facets and several intellectual lives: Arabist, historian, liberal, researcher, editor, numismatist, traveller, translator, diplomat, perhaps a spy, a generous collaborator and one of Spain's greatest bibliophiles.