How Did You End Up in Biblical Studies?

i always, always think biblical studies is such a weird profession. So how did a normal person like you end up in biblical is and we'll get to the priesthood later. i just found that i loved hebrew. I just loved everything about it. And after, after kind of going back to yale, while i was still working as a pastor, it was then that i realized, thought,you know, i really loved this stuffdand the next step is kind of doing the ph d.