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A:If by 'Aramaic' you mean the ancient religion of Aram in southern Syria, the two were quite close prior to the emergence of monotheistic Judaism. The Semitic people of Aram saw El(also referred to as El Elyon, as was the biblical El) as the chief god and father of the gods.

The Book of Genesis shows that El was also the name by which the early Israelites knew God. L. M. Barre says that the worship of El seems to go back to the Aramean roots of those who were forced to find a new land in order to survive. Jacob was remembered in cultic tradition as a "perishing Aramean." In both religions God (El Elyon in Deut. 32:8) divided the earth according to the number of "sons of God" who already existed from the time of creation. This is found in the Masoretic Text of the Hebrew Bible. However in the Septuagint translation of Deut 32:8, a version followed by most Christian Bibles, "Sons of God" is shown as "sons of Israel"; this is incongruous in the context of dividing the nations of the Earth, with Yahweh to receive Israel.

Psalm 82 talks of God presiding over the Divine Council of gods, another parallel to Aramean belief.

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