As the title reads. I’m curious in learning more about the history of early Judaism and how it evolved out of Canaanite polytheism/henotheism, as well as the origins of the Yahwist movement in Samaria/Israel.
The Origins of Biblical Monotheism: Israel's Polytheistic Background and the Ugaritic Texts - Mark S. Smith 2001
The Triumph of Elohim: From Yahwisms to Judaisms - D. V. Edelman 1995 and especially its first chapter, "The Appearance of Pantheon in Judah" - L.K. Handy
The Splintered Divine: A Study of Ishtar, Baal and Yahweh - Divine Names and Divine Multiplicity in the Ancient Near East - Spencer Allen 2015
Monotheism and Yahweh's Appropriation of Baal - James W. Watts 2015
Yahweh and the Gods and Goddesses of Canaan - John Day 2002
Only One God? Monotheism in Ancient Israel and the Veneration of the Goddess Asherah - Becking, Dijkstra, Korpel and Vriezen, 2002
A Reassessment of Asherah With Further Consideration of the Goddess - Steve A. Wiggins 2007
R. J. Petty, “Asherah: Goddess of Israel?” Ph.D. dissertation, Marquette University, 1985
Asherah and the Cult of Yahweh in Israel - Saul M. Olyan, 1988
Asherah: Goddesses in Ugarit, Israel and the Old Testament - Tilde Binger 1997