Esteemed Hebrew Scriptures professor Cynthia Schafer-Elliott joins the show before she heads out to join the biblical studies department at Baylor University. TRANSCRIPT 0:01 Everyone welcome to Jessup Think. I'm your host Mark Moore 0:04 and your co host Rex gurney. 0:06 Rex, we are here in the fishbowl studios on the beautiful campus of William Jessup University. And on the show today we have a fellow colleague, Dr. Cynthia Schaefer-Elliot is actually gonna be leaving Jessup and going to Baylor 0:20 Yeah, it's gonna be a huge loss. And she was one of the first guests on the podcast. 0:24 Yeah, she was one of the original Friends of the show. And she is our kind of Premier archaeologist. On campus. 0:33 She's actually yeah. But she's Premier, she 0:37 wouldn't be premier anywhere. And in Hebrew Scriptures, professor and just a great colleague and great friend, and we're excited to have her on the show, to talk about her new adventures, but also kind of talk about the role of archaeology, in in shaping how we read Scripture and how we understand those scripture was written. 1:06 Well, Cynthia, it is so good to have you on the show for a final time as a William Jessup University professor, so thanks for joining us. 1:17 Thanks for having me. 1:18 You know, you she's leaving for the Promised Land Jerusalem on the browser. I can't compete with that. But you know, I guess we all have that. 1:28 That's true. Well, we are excited. And maybe you could share with us a little bit where you're going and what the new adventure holds for you. 1:35 Yeah, I am going to Baylor University in Waco, Texas. Yes. So I accepted an offer to be an associate professor there of Hebrew bible old testament, and I'll be doing a lot of the same stuff I do here as far as teaching Old Testament and archaeology. I won't be the only archaeologist there, though, like I am here. So yeah, that will be nice. But I'll be in the religion department. And then after my first year there, I'll also start having doctoral students 2:11 in Old Testament or an archaeology or in combination of both or what 2:16 it could be just Old Testament, it could be a combination of the two. They do have an anthropology department and with an archaeology concentration, but they do mostly like my so you're Mesoamerican archaeology. And I think somebody works in Greece. But a couple of my colleagues in the religion department are similar to me where they do both Hebrew Bible and archaeology. So it will be nice to have some people to talk to. 2:45 You think there might be some opportunities for I guess, collaboration with Chu at seminary there? We've actually had some Jessup graduates that have gone to Troy really? 2:53 Yeah, yeah. So the religion department at Baylor, they have an undergrad program, they intentionally don't have a master's program, because the seminary is the least the way I understand it. And this is not a complete understanding, in any way. But I think that they are loosely affiliated, they're connected in some way. And so the religion department intentionally doesn't have any master's programs, because if someone who wants to they would send them to the seminary, okay, but then they have the Ph. D. Program, 3:27 which is on campus anyway. I mean, it's kind of linked. So 3:30 yeah, it's it's close enough. I think they have their own campus, but it's pretty close. The way I understand it, but you would probably know better than I would, 3:39 you know, I mean, not that I'm a dentist and a waco at all. But last time, we were there, and I've only been there twice. We actually it's 3:47 one more time than me. 3:50 We hooked up with the Jessup graduate that was going to try it and he actually medicine the library at just kind of the main library on campus at Baylor and it was really good to see him there. He's one of our history graduates ac