. . . Psalm 82 reflects the earlier polytheistic conception known to us from the Canaanite pantheon, in which YHWH stands and accuses these divine beings within the divine court of El. This has been suggested before; even within the more circumscribed interpretive framework just outlined many commentators have suggested that the terms עדת אל (v. 1) and בני עליון (v. 6) preserve vestiges of such a polytheistic pantheon and court. . . . vv. 6-8 of Psalm 82 are not the words of YHWH or the psalmist, but rather those of El. . . . In light the indictment that YHWH brings against the בני עליון in El’s court, it is El who decides to demote the בני עליון to mere mortals, confiscating their lands and inheritances; and it is El who turns to YHWH in v. 8 designates him to receive the inheritance of all o the nations. This picture is in many ways a direct development of Deut 32:8-9, according to the mythic reading, featuring Elyon as the one who distributes the lands of the various בני אלהים. In a reversal of this original plan, El (=Elyon) appropriates these lands and grants them to YHWH alone. (Michael Segal, Dreams, Riddles and Visions: Textual, Contextual and Intertextual Approaches to the Book of Daniel [Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 455; Berlin: De Gruyter, 2016], 148, 149; Segal is interacting with David Frankel, “El as the Speaking Voice in Psalm 82:6–8,” JHS 10 [2010]:2–24)
