“... In some cases, however, the portrayal of Yahweh includes some far more pointed references. Baal’s epithet rkb.‘rpt “rider of the clouds,” attested (so far) sixteen times at Ugarit, is found word-for-word [...] in Ps. 68.5 (Eng. 4), in similar forms in Psalm 104.3 [...] and in Isa. 19.1 [...]. Commentators have long seen this as a taking over of the standard description of the Canaan storm-god. [...] The polemic is less obvious in Psalm 104, but the transference of Baal’s cloudy vehicle to Yahweh is marked by a change from the direct speech of the initial verse, which addresses Yahweh in the second person singular, to a narrator’s voice, which uses a string of masculine singular participles to present Yahweh in the third person. This poetic device is lost in the NRSV, but it maintains a safe distance between Yahweh himself and the ensuing collection of attributes taken from other gods, which makes this psalm unique. I take it as a clue to the writer’s awareness that the transference in Psalm 104 remained somewhat artificial. Either this Psalmist found it uneasy to praise Yahweh by attributing Baalic elements to him, or he sought to underline the transference in this way. In either way, the tone is not polemic, but it is clear that, to this writer at least, depicting Yahweh as a storm-god riding the clouds was something new. His traditional conception of Yahweh did not correspond to a storm-god, neither Baal nor any of the Near-Eastern storm-gods, since riding on the clouds was also common to the portrayal of storm-gods in Mesopotamia. ...”