ÒThe historical worth of
these documents [JEDP] — centuries removed, as they were, from the events of which they
purported to tell — was held to be minimal. Instead,
they were valued almost exclusively for the light they cast on the beliefs and practices of
the respective periods in which they were written, not as sources of information
regarding the period of IsraelÕs origins.Ó – Bright in BANE, 4.