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Re: [westasianconlangs] Semitic glyphs < pictographs - resources?

>I have a few general "origins of the alphabet" books,
>but they don't go into much detail
>(if there is much detail to go into!).

I'm interested in this too,
but I have only a translation of the book

Davies, W.V.: Egyptian Hieroglyphs (The Bath Press 1995);

it contains two tables comparing
Egyptian, Proto-Sinaitic, Phoenician and old Greek letters
and refers to

Albright, William Foxwell: The Proto-Sinaitic Inscriptions and their
Decipherment (Harvard/London, 1966)

Gardiner, Alan H.: The Egyptian Origin of the Semitic Alphabet,
in: The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, 3., p. 1-16, 19166

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Google search for "Proto-Sinaitic Inscriptions"
gives about 500 pages, for example:

Proto-Sinaitic Inscriptions
http://as3.lib.byu.edu/~imaging/negev/Origins.html

containing

  Sign Chart of H. Grimme (1923/1988):
  http://as3.lib.byu.edu/~imaging/negev/images/06a.jpg
  (76 kByte)

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Google search for "Proto-Sinaitic Proto-Canaanite"
gives about 160 pages, for example:

http://www.ancientscripts.com/protosinaitic.html

containing

  comparison between Proto-Sinaitic, Phoenician, and Greek alphabets
  http://www.ancientscripts.com/images/protosinaitic.gif
  (27 kByte)

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Tables comparing Semitic scripts are also in:

Everson, Michael: Roadmapping early Semitic scripts
http://www.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n2311.pdf
(152 kByte)
   Tables in this document are taken from
   M. O'Connor's "Epigraphic Semitic Scripts"
  (ch. 5 in Daniels & Bright's Writing Systems of the World)

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     P.A.