Family trees, Jesse trees and Christmas trees: Mis-Remembering Jesus' ancestors
The image of a tree representing kinship networks is commonplace and widely recognised. The concept of "the genealogical tree, in the guise of the family tree, is of course highly familiar to us today". Successful commercial businesses promise subscribers resources for "making your fa...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2023
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The Australasian Catholic record
Year: 2023, Volume: 100, Issue: 3, Pages: 332-348 |
| IxTheo Classification: | CD Christianity and Culture KAE Church history 900-1300; high Middle Ages NBE Anthropology NBF Christology |
| Further subjects: | B
Christianity and other religions; Judaism
B Kinship B Culture; Religious aspects B Communities; Religious aspects |
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| Summary: | The image of a tree representing kinship networks is commonplace and widely recognised. The concept of "the genealogical tree, in the guise of the family tree, is of course highly familiar to us today". Successful commercial businesses promise subscribers resources for "making your family tree" even though the schematic diagrams created from searching their archives do not resemble an actual tree. While genealogical diagrams have taken alternative forms, the tree metaphor persists. For centuries, people have used the idea of a tree to locate their place within families and other complex organisations, including even Christian monastic communities whose vows precluded the formation of biological family ties. The use of the tree image as a representation of kin relationships has a long tradition in all literate societies, as Nathalie Gontier explains: "tree diagrams as we know them are first and foremost an outgrowth of philosophical attempts to find the true order and ontological structure of the world, an idea that can itself be traced back to most written cultures". |
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| ISSN: | 0727-3215 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The Australasian Catholic record
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.3316/informit.191013867585250 |