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• But whereas the Ashuri script had been adopted by Jews in Israel and used for all their Hebrew and Aramaic writings, Aramaic was widely spoken throughout the entire Middle East. Although Ashuri was the dominant script used for both Hebrew and Aramaic in Israel, outside of Israel Aramaic was still spoken and written, but the old Ashuri letters had independently started to be adapted and change their forms and shapes.
• And so, we next come to the Estrangela script. Estrangela was still Aramaic, but just written differently. The Wikipedia article on Estrangela tells us that it was used as early as 200 B.C. It has continued to be used down through the centuries, right up to the present day. As we saw in our lesson about the History of Estrangela, Estrangela has a really fascinating history which is intimately associated with early Christianity.