{"product_id":"and-the-sea-was-no-dave-nienhuis-9780802886149","title":"And the Sea Was No More: Reading the Bible in the Deep","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBeing overwhelmed is not spiritual failure; it's part of being a creature.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBoth confession and Bible study, \u003ci\u003eAnd the Sea Was No More\u003c\/i\u003e traces the image of the Deep through Scripture, from the Spirit hovering over primordial waters in Genesis to Revelation's vision of a time when the sea will cease to exist. Through childhood trauma and EMDR therapy, through the Psalms and the prophets, through Job's complaints and Jesus asleep in the storm, Nienhuis discovers that God meets us not above the chaos but within it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is biblical scholarship written from the body--theology that knows how to flinch, exegesis shaped by trauma, faith that has learned to breathe again after being sucker-punched by the Deep. Writing as both a scholar and a sufferer, Nienhuis offers no explanations for suffering but gives readers permission to cry \"How long, O Lord?\" without shame.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor anyone overwhelmed--by trauma, grief, illness, anxiety, depression, or simply the weight of living in a troubled world--\u003ci\u003eAnd the Sea Was No More \u003c\/i\u003eoffers both a lifeline and a liturgy. And it reveals that the only way through the Deep is to follow the slaughtered Lamb who went down into the waters and came out the other side, scarred and singing, \u003ci\u003efollow me\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"When we cry out \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eHow long, O Lord?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e we're confessing something very important about us, and about God. . . . We proclaim to the world that an end is in fact coming. The crying won't last forever.\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Dave Nienhuis\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0802886140\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780802886149\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/22\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 300\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Dave Nienhuis","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48743099793663,"sku":"9780802886149","price":28.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/and-the-sea-was-no-dave-nienhuis-9780802886149","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}