March 2000 Pamela Gaber, Ph.D What Archaeology Tells Us About Ancient Jews Pamela Gaber was born in Chicago, Illinois, where she was confirmed in the North Shore congregation Israel under Rabbi Dr. Edgar Siskin, who had a Ph.D. in anthropology, and was a strong influence on her early in life. She went to the University of Wisconsin to study anthropology as an undergraduate, spending her junior year at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. She graduated in 1970 with a Bachelor's degree in Hebrew and Semitic Studies. In 1970 she went to Harvard University, where she spent three years in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Literatures. In 1973, she moved to the Department of fine Arts, where she completed a Master's Degree in 1975, with a thesis on Persian and Central Asian art, and a Ph.D. in 1982 in Ancient Art and Archaeology. She has published a book and numerous articles on the art and archaeology of Cyprus, where she has been excavating since 1972. She taught Middle Eastern Humanities in the Department of Near Eastern Studies at the University of Arizona here in Tucson from 1991 until the Spring of 1994. The focus of her archaeology and research for the last few years has been the nature of the religions of the ancient eastern Mediterranean. A member of Temple Emanu-El since 1989, Dr. Gaber became Director of Education there in July of 1996.