{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 68a/1910-11-29/p007","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"I would like to explain what the method is like using an example. As a Goethe scholar, I tried to prove that a much-disputed essay – “On Nature” – was actually written by Goethe. There was sufficient evidence that Goethe had dictated the various sentences to the Swiss Tobler, who had an unusually good memory, during their daily walks, and that he had written them down immediately afterwards from memory. While I was of the opinion that I had clearly established Goethe's intellectual authorship, a respected philologist thanked me profusely for finally proving beyond doubt that it was not Goethe but Tobler who was the author! So for today's philologists, it depends on who dipped the pen in the ink! So they do not seek to explore the spiritual authors of the Bible, but the writers. But we do not need the Toblers, but the Goethes.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"56. Theosophy and the Bible","site_heading":null,"date":"1910-11-29","location":null,"word_count":146,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/68a/1910-11-29/p007","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:identity","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"The Essence of Christianity","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA068a/English/SOL2024/19101129p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. 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Während ich der Meinung war, die geistige Urheberschaft Goethes deutlich auseinandergesetzt zu haben, bedankte sich ein angesehener Philologe sehr bei mir, dass ich doch endlich einwandfrei erwiesen habe, dass nicht Goethe, sondern Tobler der Verfasser sei! Also den heutigen Philologen kommt es darauf an, wer die Feder in die Tinte getaucht hat! So sucht man bei der Bibel nicht die geistigen Urheber, sondern die Schreiber zu erforschen. 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