> Fair enough, makes sense. I tend to reach for Kabbalism first mostly because I am a lot more familiar with the detail there. There do seem to be a lot of useful parallels there (obsession with the sacred nature of the alphabet, for example, and with hidden magical methods hidden in the text of the holy book).
Yes. As I said, Eco "Search for the Perfect Language" really gives some good insight into that mentality. Written Hebrew (and Western) both lend itself to that sort of interpretation.
Jeff