A good read for this topic:
Mark S. Smith, The Early History of God: Yahweh and the Other Deities in Ancient Israel, Cambridge, Eerdmans 2002
The Cult of "El", paganism in bible? Saturn=Satan?
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See also:
Jeffrey H. Tigay, You Shall Have no Other Gods. Israelite Religion in the Light of Hebrew Inscriptions, Harvard Semitic Studies 31, Atlanta, Scholars Press 1986
Johannes C. De Moor, The Rise of Yahwism. The Roots of Israelite Monoteism, Bibliotheca Ephemeridum Theologicarum Lovaniensium 91, Leuven, University Press, Peeters 1997
John Day, Yahweh and the Gods and Goddesses of Canaan, Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement Series 265, Sheffield, Sheffield Academic Press 2000
Barbara Nevling Porter (ed.), One God or Many? Concepts of Divinity in the Ancient World, Transactions of the Casco Bay Assyriological Institute 1, Casco Bay, Chebeague Island 2000
Mark S. Smith, The Origins of Biblical Monotheism: Israel's Polytheistic Background and the Ugaritic Texts, Oxford, Oxford University Press 2001