Broadening the Orient’s geography and history dissolved the Biblical frame for studying it

Evidence

One, the expansion of the Orient further east geographically and further back temporally loosened, even dissolved, the Biblical framework considerably. Reference points were no longer Christianity and Judaism, with their fairly modest calendars and maps, but India, China, Japan, and Sumer, Buddhism, Sanskrit, Zoroastrianism, and Manu. — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 330

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 330
• XREF: connects to: Medieval geography interpreted physical space through biblical narrative — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2: Identity…, 599; Sanskrit scholarship displaced Biblical authority on the origins of civilization and language — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 360
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Medieval geography interpreted physical space through biblical narrative — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2: Identity…, 599; Sanskrit scholarship displaced Biblical authority on the origins of civilization and language — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 360