history of the 22 paths?

venicebard

kwaw said:
I'd also recommend The Alphabetic Labyrinth by Johanna Drucker as good overview in which to evaluate various theories in perspective. It includes reference of the proponents of the celestial alphabet theory; also of the bardic/ogham/hebraic connections that veniceboard is so enthusiastic about, kabbalah and much else besides.

Kwaw
The great thing about Drucker's book is her inclusion of several versions of the 19th-century solution linking Semitic letters to hieratic forms of (Egyptian) Hieroglyphic sound-signs. What fascinated me was that she repeatedly states that their method had been superceded by the proto-Sinaitic theory, but since she never presents said theory I gather when she finally researched it she found it to measure-up poorly next to the 19th-century hieratic theory but didn't have time to go rewrite the earlier passages saying the 19th-century scholars were probably right! (I keep meaning to write her and ask if that was the case.)

Don't remember her having much on the bardic stuff, though.