“GOLD NUGGETS AND OTHER GEMS FROM THE MINE OF SCRIPTURE: With Answers to Questions You May Never Have Thought to Ask” by Dr. Bob Leland is now available for purchase
“If Cain’s murder would be avenged seven times, and he killed an innocent man, then Lamech claims that his murder would be avenged 77 times because he killed a man in self-defense. (The N.I.V. note on vs.23 seems to read a lot into what happened.)”
– an excerpt from book
Author Reputation Press is honored to publish “GOLD NUGGETS AND OTHER GEMS FROM THE MINE OF SCRIPTURE: With Answers to Questions You May Never Have Thought to Ask” by Dr. Bob Leland. Through this masterpiece, the author hopes that whatever is written will stimulate your thinking, either to expand on the answer given or find a new and better one. He prays that “May the Lord grant you wisdom as you seek answers for your yet unanswered questions, and through those answers cause your faith to grow and draw you closer to himself.” This book is now available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and the ARP website.
Dr. Leland, the author, is highly praised by Sherry Galetka of the US Review of Books, who highlights that “Leland has painstakingly calculated, in dollars, the staggering amount of gold it took to build a temple. He has estimated Solomon’s total wealth, including an outline of where it was spent and the values of many items. With Leland’s book as a companion, anyone who reads or studies the Bible will find a deeper understanding regarding the drama that continuously unfolds.”
Dr. Robert J. Leland, the oldest of five children, was born in 1942 to Gordon and Edith Leland and grew up in Oak Park, Illinois. He accepted the Lord as his Savior when he was just four years old and dedicated his life to foreign missions when he was six.
He received his B.A. degree in Secondary English Education from Northern Illinois University in 1966, his M.A. in Biblical Education from Columbia International University in 1971, and his D.Min. from Trinity International University in 1994.
He and his wife, (Ruth) Amber (married in 1966), served in Papua, Indonesia from 1971-2002 as church planters in the Citak (CHEE-tuck) tribe on the south coast, house parents at TEAM’s hostel for missionary children in Sentani (Sen-TAH-nee) on the north coast near the Papua New Guinea border, office administrator (Bob) and bookkeeper (Amber) in Manokwari (MAH-no-KWAH-ri), and the last nineteen years of their service at the Erikson-Tritt Theological College near Manokwari. They also spent nine months in Singapore (1996), teaching at the Asian Cross-Cultural Training Institute while awaiting their visa renewal for Indonesia.
His Major Project for his D.Min., Conformed to His Image, was translated into Indonesian and published in Indonesia. Upon his return from the field in 2002, he translated Mounce’s The Analytical Lexicon to the Greek New Testament from English into Indonesian, which has since been published in Indonesia for use in Bible schools and seminaries where Greek is taught. He has also previously published The Saga of a Bent Nail, verbal “snapshots” of their 31 years in Papua, and Unexpected Transformation, a multi-use examination of the characteristics, titles, and names of Christ and how we are to reflect those in our daily lives.
He and Amber have also been teaching extension courses from the New England Bible College and Seminary (formerly Grace Evangelical College and Seminary, located in Bangor, Maine) up in Aroostook County, Maine, where they now reside.
More than a compendium of the Bible, “GOLD NUGGETS AND OTHER GEMS FROM THE MINE OF SCRIPTURE: With Answers to Questions You May Never Have Thought to Ask” is filled with questions about Scripture within both the Old and New Testaments and provides answers that may leave one more curious than ever to find answers to additional questions they might have. Included are genealogies about notable Bible characters like Moses and his family, when they were born, and how surprisingly old they were in years when they died. Chronologies provide a more concise look at Egypt, the plagues, the flood, and other noteworthy events.
“GOLD NUGGETS AND OTHER GEMS FROM THE MINE OF SCRIPTURE: With Answers to Questions You May Never Have Thought to Ask” by Dr. Bob Leland now available for purchase via ARP Bookstore: https://authorreputationpress.com/products/gold-nuggets-and-other-gems-from-the-mine-of-scripture-with-answers-to-questions-you-may-never-have-thought-to-ask.