We have learned that peoples understanding of the Bible has changed through time,  but what about peoples understanding of God and gods?  We may not think about it but there are options.   If we imagine perusing a merchant of Gods or perhaps deity figurines, there would be choices. Buy one? or buy one get 10 free.  Of course considering the quality of the products would be very important in such a decision. While polytheist have many gods they might consider one to be bigger better or older than the others, as was the case with the Canaanites. According to our reading from Michael Satlow Israelites and Judahites didn't see any problem with the worship of Yaweh, a god previously apart of a monotheist group, with the private worship of other deities. While many faithful today would consider this blasphemy. I find it curious how many faithful, ( the lay people) while openly monotheistic, might give one day to God while not even mentioning him the other 6 days even in private spaces and give so much more thought time and reverence to other things. I remember being very young and participating in art projects that outlined this very problem of idolatry. Idolatry can be the high reverence for basically anything or the worship of a physical thing that is a representation of a god. At my church the idols were fame, money, drugs, war, basically idols with out personification, only we gave them personification by giving them large scary bodies, furthering the message that these were large scary giants to watch out for and avoid. With the case of the polytheistic Canaanites and the monotheistic Israelite's it doesn’t seem that either system is better at dealing with these giants more than the other.