In his lesson More On The Work Of F.S. Parris, at about 39 minutes, Bryan Ross mentions changes in letter formation. Yes, this is a change technically, but I wonder if we would even be talking about it if it weren’t for folks in the Bible version debates looking for minutiae to grab ahold of on one side or the other. (I mean folks in general, not in reference to Bryan simply mentioning it in his lesson.) Differences in letter formation is more noticeable in older Bible printings, I suppose, because we are talking about letter formations that are not common today. Yet in our own contemporary reading, I suspect most folks read right over differences in letter formation and never give it a thought. For example, most all type fonts use the “double-story a” and many use the “loop-tail g,” while others use the “open-tail g” and some the “single-story a.” Very few folks actually print their letters in the more common typed letter formations (“double-story a” and “loop-tail g”) when they doing writing it by hand. (See picture above.) (The fonts at places like Google and Facebook usually have the “double-story a” and the “open-tail g.” Who pays any attention to that? Had you noticed?)
This is just an odd thought that jumped out at me as I was listening through Bryan’s video. Letter formation should be a topic of information, and not a debate on something that is right or wrong that has changed in the Bible.
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