When did the 1st, 2nd, etc, century written Greek start to seperate the words and acquire the modern lower case letters?
The Greek alphabet did not have punctuation until at least the 2nd Century. It was in the 7th and 8th centuries that greek started using lower case letters. When the bible was written there were neither, they were later added to the texts when they came about. Greek has been spoken in the Balkan Peninsula since the 2nd millennium BC. The earliest evidence of this is found in the Linear B tablets in the “Room of the Chariot Tablets”, a LMII-context (c. 1500 BC) region of Knossos, in Crete, making Greek one of the very few living languages (together with the Chinese and West Semitic languages) directly descended from a language recorded in the Bronze Age. Among its fellow Indo-European languages, Greek’s date of earliest attestation is matched only by the extinct Anatolian languages and Vedic Sanskrit. The later Greek alphabet is unrelated to Linear B, and is derived from the Phoenician alphabet (abjad); with minor modifications, it is still used today. Greek is conventionally divided in
