... Kwaw,
history is always fiction, if it was done by a kabbalist in 16th/17th century or by me in the 20th/21th.
Although there is a difference. We've the better sources nowadays ....
Usually.
Well, they had perhaps more intensity in it ... with the trouble of missing electrical light, they couldn't read as much we do, time was a little boring. Also they couldn't use internet and discuss finest details of all possible historical developments with other crazy heads in a computer in Australia ... and no chance to study via mouseclick some Hebrew or Phoenician letters written in stone some 2000 or 3000 years ago.
It's really good to a guy like me - interested in so much things - to live nowadays. Never before the situation was better - if I concentrate on my specific interests.
Now - what chance had the mind of an intellectual in 17th century AD or 7th AD or 7th BC to capture the situation of 17th/18th BC in a "realistic fiction"?
What is the difference between 1000, 2000, 3000 years distance to an action? In any case, it's always much time and too much to be very wise about the concentrated object - or one must have really good informations.
This was hard to gather in 17th century and much easier in our time.
So if I declare "these fictions of 17th" as probable unrealistic and try to build a better fiction - I guess, this is a realistic attempt with good chances to achieve really a better result.
Well, my theme is the didactical situation of a reading/writing teacher in 17th/18th century BC. How would he behave? What was his action? I assume, he was didactical clever.
What's wrong at this assumption? You prefer him to be stupid? Actually the Sepher Yetzirah writer assumed him to be Abraham.
I don't follow this "fiction" and assume it was a Phoenecian according to the current available information in my time, that the earliest alphabet using scriptures was found in this region (the Sepher Yetzirah author is excused, he really couldn't know that). .
The Sepher Yetzirah author assumes, that there was a relation between letters and parts of the body.
Yes, I say, that's a good idea, I see that in the names of the letters. The Sepher Yetzirah sees it different and thinks that this belongs to the 12 simple letters of its time, as itself defines them.
I say "No", that was different. The 12 parts of a body were ordered in a most simple way according to the special interests of the teacher to be as simple as possible. I think that's realism.
The Sepher Yetzirah makes a hero of the master of Alphabet. I think, that is not realism. When things start, they always start simple and nobody knows, if they finally will be successful. It doesn't need a "god-selected hero", ... a humble man like Sagramoro is good enough, for instance in the case of the most influential 5x14-deck.
Masters are not necessarily born by virgins.
But that's not really interesting. The real point is, where is the body of the ABC-man. I wonder, why you didn't take a try of the riddle instead of hunting me with details, which are relevant 1000 and more years after the time that I discuss.