Yael
"Jael Smote Sisera, and Slew Him," by James Tissot in the collection of the Jewish Museum (New York).
Residence	Tent in the plain of Zaanaim, near Kedesh.
Nationality	Kenite
Other names	Jael, Ya'el
Spouse	Heber the Kenite

Yael Killing Sisera, by Palma the Younger.

Yael or Jael (Hebrew Ya'el, יָעֵל, the name of the Nubian Ibex) is a character mentioned in the Book of Judges in the Hebrew Bible, as the heroine who killed Sisera to deliver Israel from the troops of king Jabin. She was the wife of Heber the Kenite.

Yael in the book of Judges[link]

God told Deborah (a prophetess and leader) that she would deliver Israel from Jabin. Deborah called Barak to make up an army to lead into battle against Jabin on the plain of Esdraelon. But Barak demanded that Deborah would accompany him into the battle. Deborah agreed but prophesied that the honour of the killing of the other army's captain would be given to a woman. Jabin's army was led by Sisera (Judg. 4:2), who fled the battle after all was lost.

Yael received the fleeing Sisera at the settlement of Heber on the plain of Zaanaim. Yael welcomed him into her tent with apparent hospitality. She 'gave him milk' 'in a lordly dish'. Having drunk the refreshing beverage, he lay down and soon sank into the sleep of the weary. While he lay asleep Yael crept stealthily up to him, holding a tent peg and a mallet. She drove it through his temples with such force that it entered into the ground below. And 'at her feet he bowed, he fell; where he bowed, there he fell down dead'.

As a result of the killing of Sisera, God gave the victory to Israel. Yael is considered "blessed", according to the text, because of her action. Deborah's song (Judg. 5:23-27) that refers to the death of Sisera:

"Extolled above women be Jael,

The wife of Heber the Kenite,

Extolled above women in the tent.

He asked for water, she gave him milk;

She brought him cream in a lordly dish.

She stretched forth her hand to the nail,

Her right hand to the workman's hammer,

And she smote Sisera; she crushed his head,

She crashed through and transfixed his temples.

At her feet he curled himself, he fell, he lay still;

At her feet he curled himself, he fell;

And where he curled himself, let it be, there he fell dead."

Scholars^[specify] have long recognised that the Song of Deborah, on the basis of linguistic evidence (archaic biblical Hebrew), is one of the oldest parts of the Bible.^[1] A similar story is explored in the deuterocanonical Book of Judith.

"Yael" as a given name was not common among Jews prior to the advent of Zionism;^{[clarification needed][specify][citation needed]} in contemporary Israel, however, it is among the most common female given names (see Yael (name)).

Extra-biblical references[link]

Jan Saenredam engraving picturing Yael killing Sisera

Pseudo-Philo refers to Yael in the book, Liber Antiquitatum Biblicarum:

Now Jael took a stake in her left hand and approached him, saying, “If God will work this sign with me, I know that Sisera will fall into my hands. Behold I will throw him down on the ground from the bed on which he sleeps; and if he does not feel it, I know that he has been handed over.” And Jael took Sisera and pushed him onto the ground from the bed. But he did not feel it, because he was very groggy.

And Jael said, “Strengthen in me today, Lord, my arm on account of you and your people and those who hope in you.” And Jael took the stake and put it on his temple and struck it with a hammer.

And while he was dying, Sisera said to Jael, “Behold pain has taken hold of me, Jael, and I die like a woman.”

And Jael said to him, “Go, boast before your father in hell and tell him that you have fallen into the hands of a woman.”^[2]

In popular culture[link]

Mosaic at the Dormition Church in Jerusalem

• Yael is portrayed in the French silent film Jaël et Sisera (1911), directed by Henri Andréani.^[3]

• In P.G. Wodehouse's novel The Code of the Woosters, the narrator Bertie Wooster mentions Jael in a description of hangover symptoms that he is experiencing: "Indeed, just before Jeeves came in, I had been dreaming that some bounder was driving spikes through my head--not just ordinary spikes, as used by Jael the wife of Heber, but red-hot ones."

• Booker Prize winner A.S. Byatt's 1998 collection of short fiction, Elementals: Stories of Fire and Ice contains a short story entitled "Jael", which is intricately related to the biblical story of Jael.

See also[link]

• Assassination
• Shamgar, contemporary with Deborah
• Tyrannicide, the example of Yael was used extensively by Renaissance Christian moral theorists of tyrannicide

References[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Jael and Sisera

This article incorporates text from Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897), a publication now in the public domain.

Jael de Pardo is an American television actress born in Barranquilla, Colombia. At the age of two, her family moved to Queens, New York. She began her modeling career at age four with the Ford Modeling Agency. Jael attended the prestigious Fashion Institute of Technology where she majored in Exhibit Design and Multi-Media studies.

In 2001, Jael moved to Los Angeles, California, to pursue a career in modeling and acting. She studied acting with some of the top coaches in the industry including Susan Batson and Janet Alhanti. Jael has since appeared in television and print campaigns for companies such as Levis, Apple, Verizon, Sony, and Nissan. Jael also became a spokesperson for the national anti-tobacco Truth Campaign appearing at venues such as House of Blues, MTV Beach House, and the Warped Tour.

In 2004, Jael starred in the critically acclaimed film, Subway Cafe, alongside Rick Gonzalez and Crystal Allen.^[1]

Beginning in 2005, she began working for the cable television network, Current TV, as a show host, producer and field reporter. She has garnered numerous awards for her work on Current TV including the Silver Telly Award and the Bronze Remi.^[2]

Jael appeared in the third season of Syfy's hit paranormal reality series, Destination Truth, as a field producer and team member. Currently, she is a team member on Syfy's reality series, Fact or Faked: Paranormal Files, which premiered in July 2010 and is currently in its third season.

References[link]

1. ^ Jael de Pardo at IMDB
2. ^ Destination Truth Team Biography

External links[link]

• Destination Truth Team profile
• Fact or Faked: Paranormal Files Team Profile
• Jael de Pardo at Current TV
• Jael de Pardo at the Internet Movie Database

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Andrew Sega
Andrew Sega with Iris, Seattle 2008.
Background information
Birth name	Andrew Gregory Sega
Also known as	Necros, Sorcen, The Alpha Conspiracy
Born	(1975-05-20) May 20, 1975 (age 37)
Origin	Austin, Texas
Genres	Electronica, electropop, electronic rock, IDM
Occupations	Composer, musician, programmer, game designer
Instruments	Keyboards, PC, guitar, vocals
Years active	1993–present
Labels	Diffusion Records
Associated acts	Iris, Stromkern, Straylight Productions, Alexander Brandon, Hellven, Kosmic Free Music Foundation, Psychic Monks, Five Musicians, Low Technicians, CTRL, Julia Beyer
Website	Alpha Conspiracy

Andrew Gregory Sega (born 20 May 1975),^[1] also known by the moniker Necros, is an American musician best known for tracking modules in the 1990s demoscene as well as for composing music for several well-known video games. He is currently part of the group Iris, a live member of Stromkern, and has his own recording label known as Diffusion Records.

Sega is also the founder of The Alpha Conspiracy project.

Biography[link]

Andrew Sega was born on 20 May 1975 in Austin, Texas. His interest in music began when he was 7 years old, when he started playing and experimenting with an electronic organ he had in his house. He later started taking lessons with an organist from a Polish church nearby, where he learned almost exclusively baroque music. Later in high school he learned to play other instruments, including bass clarinet and piano.^[2]

Sega's first records were from artists such as Men at Work, Genesis, and Fleetwood Mac. He discovered trackers in his first year of college (1993) from a friend, who showed him Future Crew's Unreal demo. Sega was amazed with how good the music sounded. He eventually discovered FastTracker 1.0, and began writing MOD music for the first time.^[3] His first demo group was Psychic Monks. Through the mid 1990s he contributed music to various demo and music groups, and music disks such as Epidemic (1994), featuring other noted tracker musicians like Purple Motion and Skaven.^[4]

Sega later helped form the legendary tracking group Five Musicians, which featured other notable figures, such as Jeroen Tel, Basehead and Hunz. He was also a member of German demogroup Legend Design, and iCE. Sega programmed and/or composed music for several demoscene productions, such as the NAID '95 demo Eden and 1996 demo Babylon.^[4] His composition, "Ascent of the Cloud Eagle", won the first place at NAID '95.

Later in his career, he gradually left demoscene behind and started making music for video games, beginning with little known titles such as In Pursuit of Greed, Iron Seed and Xixit, then moving on to Origin Systems' Crusader series, where he worked as a software engineer and composer. Sega was a founding member of the video game music production company Straylight Productions, contributing tracks to the first-person shooters Unreal and Unreal Tournament. Later, he joined Digital Anvil^[5] (now a part of Microsoft Game Studios), and worked as a programmer and musician on Freelancer. In 2006 he founded Diffusion Games, a gaming company which focuses on exploring emotional and social aspects of interactivity.^[6]

In 2001, Sega founded The Alpha Conspiracy, and released two studio albums, Cipher (2001) and Aura (2004), and a split EP with Low Technicians, Forward Rewinding (2002). He also founded Diffusion Records, an independent record label through which he would release his first Alpha Conspiracy album. Gradually, Diffusion Records became a full-featured label, releasing albums by Iris, CTRL, Low Technicians, and Kilowatts and Vanek.^[7]

Sega was introduced to Iris in 2001. He started working on several test tracks with Reagan Jones before becoming an official member in 2002.

He is also a live member of industrial hip hop group Stromkern. Currently he is working on a new dark electropop project with Julia Beyer (Chandeen, Technoir).^[2]

Sega's influences include Underworld, μ-Ziq, Orbital, Fluke, The Prodigy, Hybrid, Mouse on Mars, Depeche Mode, Rush, Genesis, XTC, Public Enemy, Aphex Twin, Imogen Heap, and The Chemical Brothers, among others.^[8][9][10]

Video game credits[link]

Demoscene
Concepts
Demo - Intro - Demoparty - Effects - Demogroup - Compo - Music disk - Diskmag - Module file - Tracker
Alternative demo platforms
Amiga - Apple IIGS - Atari ST - Commodore 64 - Vic-20 - Text mode - ZX Spectrum
Parties
Current: Alternative Party - Assembly - Buenzli - Evoke - The Gathering - Sundown - X
Past: Breakpoint - Mekka & Symposium - The Party
Websites
Pouet.net - Scene.org - Mod Archive - Trax in Space
Software
ProTracker - Scream Tracker - Fast Tracker - Impulse Tracker - ModPlug - Renoise
Tracker musicians
Demosceners
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Andrew Sega has composed music for the following video games:

• 2007 - Aqua Teen Hunger Force: Zombie Ninja Pro-Am
• 2007 - Enigma
• 2003 - Freelancer
• 2001 - Conquest: Frontier Wars
• 1999 - Unreal Tournament
• 1999 - Jazz Jackrabbit 3 (unreleased)
• 1998 - Unreal
• 1997 - Wing Commander: Prophecy
• 1996 - Crusader: No Regret
• 1995 - Crusader: No Remorse
• 1995 - In Pursuit of Greed
• 1995 - Xixit
• 1994 - Iron Seed

Discography[link]

Necros[link]

• 1994 - Digital Psychosis (Psychic Monks, DOS music disk)
• 1995 - Progression (Five Musicians, DOS music disk with S3M files)
• 1997 - System (IT music files)

The Alpha Conspiracy[link]

• 2001 - Cipher
• 2001 - Forward Rewinding (a split EP with Low Technicians)
• 2004 - Aura

Iris[link]

• 2003 - Awakening
• 2003 - Reconnect
• 2005 - Wrath
• 2005 - Disconnect 2.0
• 2008 - Hydra
• 2010 - Blacklight

References[link]

External links[link]

Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: Andrew Sega

• The Alpha Conspiracy official website
• The Alpha Conspiracy on Myspace
• Andrew Sega at MobyGames
• Artist profile at OverClocked ReMix
• Andrew Sega Webshrine with Music examples
• Andrew Sega at Discogs
• Diffusion Records official website
• Iris official website
• The Alpha Conspiracy discography at MusicBrainz
• Stromkern official website