David’s Secret Demons, Baruch Halpern, (2004), p.8, citat: "Most likely, storytellers displaced the deed from the otherwise obscure Elhanan onto the more famous character, David."
Cf. Finkelstein, Israel; Silberman, Neil Asher (). „Prologue. The Shepherd and the Slingstone”. David and Solomon. In Search of the Bible's Sacred Kings and the Roots of the Western Tradition (în engleză). New York: Free Press. p. 2. ISBN978-0-7432-4363-6. Accesat în . Why does the Bible, in an often-overlooked passage, credit another hero with the killing of Goliath?
