Spoke 15: The Biblewheel and The 15th Century

Spoke 15: The Biblewheel and The 15th Century

When you look at the pattern of the Biblewheel, where the pattern of the Hebrew Alphabet, being 22 letters is found not only in the Alphabetic Psalms and poetic parts of the Bible, but also found in the pattern of books and chapters and numerical values within the text as well (days, years, amounts mentioned in the text).

This alpha-numerical pattern is found in history as well. In this case let us compare the Spokes of the Biblewheel with the books of the Bible related to the Spoke as well as the letter of the Hebrew Alphabet.

The 15th Spoke with Post-Christian History of the 15th Century and Links

Spoke 15: The Biblewheel and The 15th Century (Go back to main Menu) - the fall of Constantinople in 1453 and the migration of Greek scholars (among others) to the west; - the call of Mehmet II (the Conqueror) of the Ottomans for Christian, Jewish and Islamic prisoners to resettle in Constantinople; - most of the Scottish kings in the 15th century were named James (with the exception of Mary Queen of the Scots); - the invention of the Gutenberg printing press. Even though Johannes Gutenberg printed the first Bible called the Gutenberg Bible he went bankrupt. He was testified against by Johann Fust and Peter Schöffer; - the influence of the Medici the bankers of Florence and the Florin, the currency of Europe at the time; - the opening of the library of San-Marco in Florence sparked the Renaissance on Greek philosophy and literature; - Girolamo Savonarola prophesies the coming of a Cyrus-type figure against Florence and Rome; - Ezra the scribe (the 15th book of the bible) is said to be the flowering according to Rabbinic commentators; - Bayezid II the Ottoman Sultan brings the Sephardic Jews of Spain to Constantinople; - the Wars of the Roses' emblems perhaps associated with the flowering of western Europe started by the Renaissance of Florence.