In his book The Historian and History, Page Smith writes: “[The Hebrews] were as pitiless to their heroes as to their villains, to themselves as to their adversaries, because they were writing under the eye of God and had nothing to gain and much to lose by dissembling. ”
في كتاب المؤرخ والتاريخ ،‏ يكتب پايج سميث :‏ « كان [الكتبة العبرانيون] قساة في الكتابة عن ابطالهم كما عن اشرارهم ،‏ عن انفسهم كما عن خصومهم ،‏ لأنهم كانوا يكتبون وعينُ الله عليهم ،‏ ولأن إخفاء الحقيقة لا يُكسبهم شيئا بل يخسِّرهم الكثير » .‏