dberrie----Just what Michael states:
1. The plural ʾĕlōhîm of Psalm 82:1, 6 are divine beings, not human judges or humans fulfilling any role.
2. The term monotheism is inadequate to describe what it is Israel believed about God and the members of his council. As the text explicitly says,
there are other ʾĕlōhîm.
3. References to "us" and "our" in p***ages like Genesis 1:26 do not refer to the Trinity. The plural ʾĕlōhîm of Psalm 82 are also not members of the Trinity.
4. The denial statements of Isaiah and elsewhere ("there is no god beside me") do not cons***ute denials of the existence of other ʾĕlōhîm.
Rather, they are statements of Yahweh's incomparability.