the early Israelites likely viewed their god El pretty much the same way the Canaanites viewed El: as the chief deity presiding over a divine assembly of lower deities, just as Enlil, or Amun-Re, or Marduk, or Zeus, or any other High God would. They acknowledged, and occasionally even worshiped, the other deities in the Canaanite pantheon. But their allegiance was to the god after whom they were named: El.
