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F. F. BruceThe functions which in the Canaanite pantheon are shared out among a wide variety of deities are for the Israelites concentrated in Yahweh; in the Ugaritic texts Asherah walks on the sea and Baal rides on the clouds, but in the Old Testament it is Yahweh who does both:

He plants his footsteps in the sea,
And rides upon the storm.

—F. F. Bruce, New Testament Development of Old Testament Themes, (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1985), 41.

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