I after wonder if this so called god Yahweh is really what they say he is a dessert god from Edom that the News made their own and combined with El. Almost every writing about this god is motifs of El and then one of his created beings Baal Hadad. Some say they could have just a easily taken the moon god of Egypt and morphed him with El. In the Canaanite pantheon both El and Hadad are the the husband of Asherah.
When they get to Babylon it would seam as though they switched to worshipping Enki and or Marduk. In the Canaanite religion it looks as though Enki was the god Dagon. The reason a lot of scholars may reject this idea that the Jew's worshipped him is because the Bible talking about rejecting Baal and their enemy the Sea people worshiped Dagon. The important question one should ask was the Baal they were told to not worship was he in fact the same Baal Hadad or just the Baal of a certain city.
Some say that the Jew's were not polythiastic at all since most of the time the word used in the Bible was Elohim which is plural for god's not god. Also everytime one sees the word lord what he really is seeing is the original word Baal. So as I see it El was the same god as the earlier Sumerian god Anu. Baal Hadad replaced him as the top god when he cheated death and defeated the dragon Logan. Marduk does the same in the Babylonian pantheon. Dagon is the father of Hadad and Enki is the father of Marduk. Just a reminder Yahweh is written as being and accomplishing the same things as El and Hadad and their is writings in the Emu Elish about Marduk that are very similar to what is said about Yahweh in the Bible. It's hard to connect all the gods together because each city or region would change things about their gods a bit. Anyway I don't know if this desert god ever really got into the pantheon of the Jew's. It's my opinion that they worshipped El, then Hadad. Enki is Dagon both of their sons rise up to defeat the dragon, Hadad and Marduk. Dagon and Enki are associated with fish. Dagon with bread as well. Jesus is associated with fish and bread and sends his champion Michael to fight the dragon and defeat death in the book of revelations. Their are also similarities in the pantheon of the Egyptians and Greeks. I believe that by the first century the writers where using the pantheons of the Egyptians and Babylonian's to write the epic of this new Savior Jesus. In the end it's all about worship of the Sun but connecting the gods is not an easy task next week I may find another clue that makes me change my opinion which god is which. Like you Doug, I'm just a student of all this. I downloaded this document and will read it with hopes it will add to my knowledge of the gods. One question for you is do.you believe in the exodus or do you believe it to be a retelling of an older story either from the Hyksos, story from Assyria or possibly a story about the Jews returning from Babylon?