The earliest known Greek manuscripts of the New Testament are written in capital letters without accent marks, and with little punctuation or even spaces between words (ANACCOUNTOFTHE GENEALOGYOFJESUSTHEMESSIAH).
Punctuation, capitalization, paragraphing, verse and chapter markings were all added later to help the reader.
To see an example of an uncial manuscript (a manuscript written in all capital letters) try this Wikipedia article on the Codex Sinaiticus http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex_Sinaiticus : click on the photograph of 'Uncial 01'.
For additional discussion, and references to other articles and scholarly studies of Bible manuscripts, see the Wikipedia article "Biblical Manuscripts."
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