Finally, one must address the significance of the phrases “ancient of days” and “coming with the clouds of heaven,” which are seen by the proponents of the Baal myth hypothesis as echoing epithets of El (“father of years”) and Baal (“rider of the clouds”), and associating these with God and the “one like a human,” respectively. If there is no significant presence of mythic elements in the plot of Dan 7, as I have argued, then these phrases are unlikely to have any independent force. Despite Collins’s assertion that “Daniel 7 is exceptional in the Hebrew Bible in depicting God [as an aged god],” there are several biblical parallels to the phrase “ancient of days,” including “God of Ages” (‘ēl ‘ôlām, Gen 21:33; ‘ĕlōhĕ ‘ôlām, Isa 40:28), “the ancient God” (‘ĕlōhê qedem, Deut 33:2, 7), and in Aramaic, “Lord of Ages” (mārē’ ‘ālmayyā, Gen. Ap. 21.2). Even Colpe, who is ultimately fairly sympathetic to the arguments for a Canaanite background to Dan 7, considers “father of years” to be a dubious parallel to “ancient of days.” At most it simply reflect the acknowledged fact that the conceptualization of YHWH frequently includes typological aspects shared with Canaanite El.