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• After Ashuri and Estrangela, the next most important script is Serta. The Serta script arose after Estrangela, around the 8th century according to Wikipedia, and was again a historical development from Estrangela. The Serta script was designed to be more cursive, meaning that it can, and should, be written as one continuous movement of the pen from right to left - something which we have brought out many times during these lessons on the Aramaic Alphabet. Letters are joined together when possible.
• Like the Ashuri and Estrangela scripts before it, Serta has continued in use right up to the present day. Even today, a small number of professional scribes around the world continue to write Aramaic Peshitta manuscripts in the Serta script. This is a testimony to how God’s word has remained in continuous existence down through not only centuries, but millennia.