Certainly, after all, early Christianity was pretty concerned with depicting God not as divinity itself as we see today but as just the strongest deity that could give all the others a swirly. There were a lot of religious politics to consider back then. Just look at Islam and its origin involving a town that made its money selling figurines of Gods, Mecca, throwing out that pesky monotheist Muhammad who was gonna ruin their economy. The early storytellers who are responsible for what became Judaism could easily have been aware of the political significance of demonizing certain tropes associated with other (pagan) traditions.