2 The Heavenly Host

Who are the members of the Heavenly Host?
Heavenly Host is a term used in the Bible for the pantheon of divine beings who administer the affairs of the cosmos. All ancient Mediterranean cultures had some conception of a divine council. The divine council of Israelite religion, known primarily through the psalms, was distinct in important ways.
If we compare the Old Testament (Hebrew Tenach) with other ancient religious texts we see some overlaps between the divine councils of the surrounding nations and Israel’s knowledge of the heavenly bureaucracy. One example outside the Bible is from the literature from Ras Shamra (Ugarit). Translated shortly after their discovery in the 1930s, these tablets contain several phrases describing a council of gods that are conceptually and linguistically parallel to the Hebrew Bible. The Ugaritic council was led by El, the same proper name used in the Hebrew Bible for the God of Israel. So the Canaanites also recognized the existence of multiple members of the Heavenly population.