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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