Reading scripture as myth constituted the secular domain of history.

Evidence

The rereading of the scriptures through the grid of myth has not only separated the sacred from the secular, it has helped to constitute the secular as the epistemological domain in which history exists as history—and as anthropology. — Talal Asad, Formations of the Secular, 204

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the idea that ‘secular’ is not the absence of religion but a produced epistemological category — echoes Asad’s earlier argument and Strathern/Latour’s constructivism.
• DEEPTHINKING: A dense reorientation: scripture-as-myth is not merely a division of genres but a move that created the very possibility of ‘history’ and ‘anthropology’ as secular knowledge domains.