Canaanite Myth and Hebrew Epic: Essays in the History of the Religion of Israel

Frank Moore Cross's foundational study of West Semitic religion and its relation to early Israelite religion. Cross argues that the divine assembly of El, attested in the Ugaritic texts, is the proper background for the divine-council passages of the Hebrew Bible, and that Yahweh emerges as a warrior figure within (and eventually displacing) that council. Standard reference for the El-Yahweh continuity argument and the divine-council reading.