Editing Sisera (section)

==Sisera in artistic works==
[[File:Tissot Jael Smote Sisera, and Slew Him.jpg|thumb|upright 1.2|''Jael Smote Sisera, and Slew Him'', by [[James Tissot]] in the collection of the [[Jewish Museum (New York)]].]]
Sisera's murder by Jael was frequently depicted in historical European art. [[Lucas van Leyden]], a Dutch engraver and painter during the Renaissance period, created a woodcut of the scene.

[[Pietro Alessandro Guglielmi]] (1728–1804) wrote an oratorio, ''Debora e Sisera'', for the Lenten season of 1788 at the [[Teatro di San Carlo]], [[Naples]], which was said to have been "almost universally regarded as one of the most sublime works of the late 18th century."<ref>Howard E. Smither, ''A History of the Oratorio: Volume 3: The Oratorio in the Classical Era'' (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, 1987), 181–195.</ref>

German composer [[Simon Mayr]] wrote an [[oratorio]] (1793) on the story of Sisera for the church of San Lazzaro dei Mendicanti in [[Venice]].<ref>[http://www.italianopera.org/e/Mayr/sisara4.html Italian opera website].</ref>

In [[Geoffrey Household]]'s 1939 spy thriller ''[[Rogue Male (novel)|Rogue Male]]'', the protagonist muses: "Behold, Sisera lay dead and the nail was in his temples."

In a half-hour radio drama, ''[[Butter in a Lordly Dish]]'' (1948), [[Agatha Christie]] has her protagonist drug a lawyer's coffee; after revealing her true identity, she hammers a nail into his head.

The central image of [[Aritha van Herk]]'s novel 'The Tent Peg' refers to Sisera.

In [[Anthony Trollope]]'s novel ''[[The Last Chronicle of Barset]]'', artist Conway Dalrymple paints the heiress Clara Van Siever as Jael driving a nail through the head of Sisera.

The story of Jael and Sisera has been the subject of many paintings, including those by [[Artemisia Gentileschi]], [[Gregorio Lazzarini]], [[James Northcote (painter)|James Northcote]], [[Gustave Doré]] and [[James Tissot]].

In [[Shelby Foote]]'s ''Stars in Their Courses'' (1994), about the [[Battle of Gettysburg]], the author reflects on the defeat of General [[Robert E. Lee]].

"The Stars in Their Courses" is the title of a chapter about the Battle of Gettysburg in the novel ''Lone Star Preacher'' (1941) by [[John Thomason]]. The quotation from Judges 5:20 appears at the end of the chapter.

In the ''[[Law & Order]]'' episode "Pro Se", the schizophrenic James Smith suffers from the delusion that (among other things) he is General Sisera and various women are trying to poison him.

In [[Waking the Dead (TV series)|Waking the Dead]] s4ep1 "In Sight of The Lord" a series of murders are committed with a large nail through the head fixing the victim to the floor. The biblical meaning of the act is explored in the process of solving the murders.