Reddit reply in r/AcademicQuran: is the concept of yahweh and the pantheon of gods — March 8, 2025 · mgnw2vd | Ali Shukri Amin

The abstract literally contradicts what you said.

"Other scholars who reject this evolutionary paradigm tend to assume passages evincing divine plurality actually speak of human beings, or that the other gods are merely idols. This view insists that “monotheism” must mean that the existence of other gods is denied. Both views are problematic and fall short of doing
justice to the full description of Israel’s view of God and the heavenly host in the Hebrew Bible. This article overviews the difficulties of each view and offers a coherent alternative."

If there are two views it isn't a consensus. Consensus was a poor choice here by the author, who seems to then go on to present a THIRD view. He should have said "predominant opinion" or something along those lines.

Clearly some scholars don't agree with this idea that Israel was polytheistic or henotheistic and then became monotheistic. Jews claim that they were initially monotheistic but then went through boughts of henotheism if not full fledged polytheism back and forth. I think a non-linear description of their theology makes more sense as these things tend to drastically change in many directions when the timescale is thousands of years. The idea that Jews were a more primitive polytheistic then "evolved" into monotheism, without some more compelling evidence of this straightforward linearity than other deities being mentioned in the Torah, reeks to me of a modernist progression of history or Whig historiography.

What's the archaeological evidence for this if you can help me with that?