Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Nir cohen - Prof. Mat." <nir AT ccet.ufrn.br>]

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