> The humanities have also made important advances: for instance, in our understanding of the culture and history of areas outside Europe and North America. The

> The humanities have also made important advances: for instance, in our understanding of the culture and history of areas outside Europe and North America. They have made breakthroughs in text analysis, such as demonstrating that the Old Testament was composed in multiple layers, and they have given us an entirely new way of looking at the world as constructed by “epistemic regimes.” We’ve known the Old Testament was composed in multiple layers since well before anyone currently alive was born. Philology as born out of biblical criticism so that understated the case if anything.