The world’s earliest question mark???

Owner of Jericho Press and author of Robinson's Paradigms and Exercises in Syriac Grammar, Dr. Chip Coakley has identified what may be the world’s earliest example of a question mark...

Manuscripts of the Bible are not even the majority of the collection now in the British Library, but they have their special points of interest. One of these is the way that the graceful and flowing Syriac script is peppered with dots. 

 

Some of these dots are well understood, but some are not – some, indeed, probably not even by the scribes, who did not copy them consistently. All this made for a confusing picture, and it needed a patient scholar to start to make sense of it.

 

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Antiochians Participate in Cambridge Institute's Summer Session

The Institute for Orthodox Christian Studies in Cambridge, England, recently wrapped up its 12th annual Summer School session, titled "The Challenge of a Secular Age." (Read Principal David Frost's summary of the week.) The Institute has close ties with the Antiochian Deanery in the United Kingdom, and Antiochian Orthodox Christians from North America have also participated in this distance learning program. Some have even been able to travel to England to attend the summer sessions. 

Dr. Michael Basham, an Antiochian member of the Institute's Board and a Parish Council member of St. Luke Antiochian Orthodox Church in Erie, CO.: "We strive to raise our intellectual awareness while deepening our spiritual growth and in doing so be able to '...confront life’s problems without fear or anger.' "

To assist individuals and parishes do that, Basham explains, the Institute provides a number of resources. "At St. Luke we have used the Institute's resource THE WAY... The distance learning program in Orthodox Christian Studies has been truly transformative for me and I would encourage everyone to experience the Institute for themselves by exploring their online library which features video recordings from worship events, lectures, recitals and interviews with world-class Orthodox scholars and spiritual leaders.”

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