Complex sentence: His name may have begun as an epithet of El, head of the Bronze Age Canaanite pantheon, but the earliest plausible mentions are in Egyptian texts that place him among the nomads of the southern Transjordan.
Split into simpler sentences: His name may have begun as an epithet of El, head of the Bronze Age Canaanite pantheon. The earliest plausible references to it are in Egyptian texts that place him among the nomads of the southern Transjordan.