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Absalom
אבשלום he
Biblical character; third son of David (Second Book of Samuel)
- Child of David and Maacah
- Traditionally 1009 BCE – 978 BCE
A life on the record,
dated by its sources.
Roles, not beliefs
Overview
From Wikipedia, quoted unmodified under CC BY-SA 4.0; the article’s history is its list of authors.
Life
Roles and affiliation
Holding an office is not parentage and not discipleship.
What this means
As the records give them: every row is a third party’s statement, not a self-description, and a role or an affiliation is often held for one period of a life only. An affiliation is not a belief, and this site does not ask anyone about theirs. For an office: which one, for how long, and where the records give an ordinal or the holders either side. Recognition of a tenure is never universal: contested lines appear as overlapping tenures rather than as one corrected sequence.
Belonged to
Offices held 1
- Dates unrecorded king
Family
The family of Absalom
Parents, consorts and children as the accounts give them. Choose a consort to see the children the stories give the two.
Accounts differ about a god’s family. Where they name different parents, the tree sets them side by side instead of choosing one.
The family as a list · 5
Kinship in an account 4
What this means
Parentage as a named source tells it. Not an independently established biological relationship, and different accounts disagree.
Does not imply an independently established biological relationship · agreement between accounts · shared parentage in every account · descent from the same generation in a single tree
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
Family 1
What this means
A documented human family relationship. Not a succession mechanism, and not religious transmission.
Does not imply a religious affiliation held by the whole house · continuous rule
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
Texts
In the texts
Works this figure appears in. A work’s date is the source’s, not this figure’s.
Sources
Sources and evidence
Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.
8 statements on this record
- 2 Has references The statement cites something outside Wikimedia. That citation has not been checked here.
- 6 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it.
Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.
Three layers, three licences
- Text
- Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted, not merged
- Pictures
- Wikimedia Commons · each file’s own terms
Review
Not yet read by an editor here. Every relationship on this page is an import.
Computed Worked out here, not stated by any source: 1 collection membership. Each is marked where it is shown.
Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.
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