Auteur: Waldemar Janzen

<p>Waldemar Janzen was born in the Ukraine during the Stalin era. At the age of three, he lost his father, a Mennonite teacher and minister, to a Soviet concentration camp. In 1943, during World War II, he escaped with his mother to Germany, where he was a refugee until his immigration to Canada in 1948.</p><p>He earned degrees of B.A. (University of Western Ontario), B.D. (Mennonite Biblical Seminary), M.A. (German; University of Manitoba), Th.M. (Old Testament; Harvard Divinity School), and Ph.D. (Near Eastern Languages and Literatures; Harvard University).</p><p>He served as academic dean at Canadian Mennonite Bible College for many years and he is currently Professor Emeritus of Old Testament and German, and continues to teach on a part-time basis.</p><p>Among Janzen&rsquo;s published works are <i>Mourning Cry and Woe Oracle</i>, <i>Still in the Image: Essays in Old Testament Theology and Anthropology</i>, and <i>Old Testament Ethics: A Paradigmatic Approach</i>.</p>