[B-Greek] Capital Greek Letters

George F. Somsel gfsomsel at juno.com
Thu Jun 3 20:54:17 EDT 2004


I'm guessing regarding what you mean so I may not be addressing your
question.

It sounds as though you think that the text was originally all in lower
case letters (such manuscripts are known as minuscules).  This is not the
case.  The early manuscripts were in all capitals (known as uncials).  

gfsomsel
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On Thu, 3 Jun 2004 14:12:45 -0700 "Mark Parent" <"m.p."@verizon.net>
writes:
> Hello, I have looked in text books to find out how and why capital 
> Greek letters came about and the significance of there use in the 
> text. Can anyone help me with this.
> Thank you, Mark Parent
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