Hidden Numbers: Reconsidering the Place of the Bible in Ancient Mathematical Cultures October 29 @ 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm Hybrid - Theron Room, Wright Library 25 Library Pl, Princeton, NJ The Hebrew Bible is filled with counting, calculation, and measurement, but rarely taken seriously as a source of information about numeracy or mathematical thought in the ancient world. In fact, many scholars have gone so far as to say that the Bible is simply “bad at math.” A key text that has been used to justify this claim by biblical scholars and mathematicians alike is 1 Kings 7:23, which is thought to contain a calculation of pi as equal to 3.
