And the Sea Was No More: Reading the Bible in the Deep

When panic attacks shattered his world, leaving him drowning in a chaos he couldn’t name, biblical scholar Dave Nienhuis discovered something unexpected: Scripture itself offered language for his anguish. The Bible’s recurring image of the catastrophic Deep—the watery chaos that threatens to overwhelm—spoke for him when he had no words of his own.

Both confession and Bible study, And the Sea Was No More traces the imag...