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• Although Estrangela and Serta were both used and one did not necessarily replace the other, over time, one other script became heavily used. This script is referred to as the “Eastern” script, or Madnechaya in Aramaic, and we will discuss it more fully in a separate group of lessons. But this Eastern script, also called Swadaya, not only extended VERY far east, all the way across the Eastern parts of the Middle East and as far afield as India and beyond, but it too is still used extensively today. In fact, Madnechaya or Swadaya or Eastern script is still used extensively today in the Church of the East, where the Peshitta New Testament is still the official New Testament, personally handed down to the early church by the Apostles themselves.