Monotheism and Yahweh's Appropriation of Baal Quotes

“(...) The reference to the sun, here, is a true reflection of healing abilities attributed to solar deities such as Shemesh. It would be overdrawn to take the leaping calf as a reference to Baal’s bovine associations, but this verse shows that the appropriation process had to cover every divine prerogative before Yahweh could eliminate all the other gods.”
― James S. Anderson, Monotheism and Yahweh's Appropriation of Baal

“(...) This means that the parting of the Sea of Reeds by Moses and the parting of the waters of the Jordan by Joshua, Elijah and Elisha belong to this polemical motif, even though they also recall the splitting of Tiamat, the sea dragon of the Babylonian creation. The biblical writers may not have had access to Ugaritic and Babylonian mythological texts as we do, but they were immersed in a world founded upon the mythological themes recorded in these texts.”
― James S. Anderson, Monotheism and Yahweh's Appropriation of Baal