Commenting on the use of קנה in Deut 32:6, Ny Wyatt wrote:
To the form qōnê cf. Genesis 14:19, 22, reflecting an old
Northwest Semitic title *qny arṣ,
preserved in the Hittite divine Name Elkunirša, both forms denoting El’s
paternal role as “El, generator of the world (or: earth).” (N. Wyatt, “The Seventy Sons of
Athirat, the Nations of the World, Deuteronomy 32:6b, 8-9, and the Myth of
Divine Election,” in The Archaeology of Myth: Papers on Old Testament
Tradition [London: Routledge, 2014], 71)
