I. Name
Jael at whose hands Sisera met his death (Judg. 4–5) has been interpreted as a demythologized incarnation of the goddess Amaltheia (Garbini 1978).
II. Identity
The principal motive for speculations about the mythological background of Jael is the conjectural connection between the name Sisera (סיסרא) and the name (j)a-sas-sa-ra in a votive text written in Minoan ‘Linear A’. The latter corresponds with Gk. ΣΑΙΣΑΡΑ and belongs to Zeus Krētogenēs, the god born on the isle of Crete (G. Pugliese Carratelli, ΣΑΙΣΑΡΑ, 31 [1976] 1…