In his Exploring Mormon Thought, Volume 3: Of God and Gods (Salt Lake City: Greg Kofford Books, 2008), 135, Blake Ostler has a useful table showing the parallels between El and Ba’al in the Ugaritic Ba’al Cycle and the Ancient of Days and the Son of Man in Dan 7:
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Ugaritic
Ba’al Cycle |
Daniel
7 |
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(1) El, the white bearded and aged high God is the sovereign over
the divine council. |
(1) The Ancient of Days is seated on the fiery wheeled throne.
Like El, he is white haired and aged for ancient. |
|
(2) El bestows kingship on Ba’al who defeats Yamm representing the
chaotic water in battle. |
(2) Yahweh-El, the Ancient of Days, bestows kingship upon the
Son of Man who rides the clouds after the beast of the sea (yamma) is
destroyed. |
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(3) Ba’al is the king of the gods and El’s chief vizier who is
given everlasting rule from El. |
(3) The Son of Man is given everlasting rule over the nations of
the earth. He rules at the right hand of God. |
