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It is difficult to determine to what extent the ' false worship ' which the prophets stigmatize is the worship of Yahweh under a conception and with rites, which treated him as a local nature god, or whether particular features of gods more often given the title Ba ‘ al were consciously recognized to be distinct from Yahwism from the first.

Certainly some of the Ugaritic texts and Sanchuniathon report hostility between El and Hadad, perhaps representing a cultic and religious differences reflected in Hebrew tradition also, in which Yahweh in the Tanach is firmly identified with El and might be expected to be somewhat hostile to Baʿal / Hadad and the deities of his circle.

But for Jeremiah and the Deuteronomist it also appears to be monotheism against polytheism ():