jim, in canaanite, as far as i know, there was a single word for city, QRT/QRYT. and we have enough written material to discard other synonyms with some certainty. so, your argument that the canaanite name was YRW-$LM = city of peace, is unlikely since one should expect QRT-$LM or QRYT-$LM instead.
you are positing a canaanite word which, as far as we can tell, did not exist. in addition, as far as i know, no other (canaanite) city contained the element YRW, probably nor the element $LM. >>>jim: In my view, (i) the Canaanite name of this city meant “City of Peace”, nir cohen _______________________________________________ b-hebrew mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/b-hebrew
