Danel

[3] He passed through trials: his son Aqhat was destroyed but apparently in the missing conclusion was revived or replaced by Danel's patron god, Rpʼu, who sits and judges with Hadad and Astarte and was likely considered to be the equivalent of El.

[6] In these texts Danel in mentioned as one who invites the Rephaim, divine beings of the underworld, to a feast during the late summer fuit harvest, reminiscent of the biblical festival of booths.

This notwithstanding, parallels and contrasts with Danel (without an i)[9] of Ezekiel, placed between Noah and Job[10] and invoked as the very example of righteous judgement,[11] first pointed out by René Dussaud in 1931,[12] have led readers commonly to accept[13] or occasionally to reject[14][15] a degree of identification with Ugaritic Danel of the Tale of Aqhat, amounting virtually to the same figure.

[16][17] The three figures referred to in Ezekiel 14:14 — "Even if Noah, Danel and Job were in it" — links the name with two non-Israelites of great antiquity.

"[20] Literary texts discovered at Ugarit include the "Tale of Aqhat" (or Legend of Danel), revealing a Canaanite religion.

Thus, if they were three ancient, righteous, non-Israelite men, Ezekiel's triad would fit the pattern of Yahweh judging Israel to some degree by the nations around them.