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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Главный автор: Ryan, Maurice (Автор)
Формат: Электронный ресурс Статья
Язык:Английский
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Опубликовано: Informit 2023
В: The Australasian Catholic record
Год: 2023, Том: 100, Выпуск: 3, Страницы: 332-348
Индексация IxTheo:CD Христианство и культура
KAE Высокое средневековье
NBE Антропология
NBF Христология
Другие ключевые слова:B Christianity and other religions; Judaism
B Kinship
B Culture; Religious aspects
B Communities; Religious aspects
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Итог: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".
ISSN:0727-3215
Второстепенные работы:Enthalten in: The Australasian Catholic record
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.3316/informit.191013867585250