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. ”
Në librin e tij The Historian and History, Pejxh Smithi shkruan: « [Hebrenjtë] ishin po aq të pamëshirshëm me heronjtë e tyre, sa ç’ishin me të ligjtë, ishin po aq të pamëshirshëm me veten, sa ç’ishin me kundërshtarët, sepse po shkruanin nën vështrimin e Perëndisë dhe duke i fshehur gjërat nuk fitonin asgjë e humbitnin shumë. »