Papias' Logia: Framed on Ovation Channel

Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Framed on Ovation Channel

After I put the kid to bed last night, I started perusing the channels, and I came upon the Ovation channel's programs on photography.

http://www.ovationtv.com/framed/

I watched most of "Right Place, Right time", and then "Fixing the Shadows". The photo to the left is from Andre Kertesz, and the scene has not changed much from when he took the shot, over 100 years ago. I love the "decisive moment" pictures.

They were both pretty good, but I had issues watching them.

They seemed to be directed towards photgraphers. So some of the comments were, shall we say, a little esoteric.

Some of the music was downright crazy - I had to mute the TV! Piano playing really fast, the same melody - like crazy music!

I Tivo'd another episode last night, and may do that for the rest. Otherwise, between the crazy music and the pseudo philosophical mumbo jumbo just gets to be too much!

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About my namesake...

Papias wrote in the first half of the second century and was one of the early leaders of the Christian church. Church historian Eusebius calls him the "Bishop of Hierapolis" (modern Pamukkale, Turkey) which is 22 kilometers from Laodicea near Colossae (see Colossians 4:13).

His “Interpretations of the Sayings of the Lord” (his word for "sayings" is "logia") in five books, would have been a prime early authority in the exegesis of the sayings of Jesus. His treatise, however, has utterly disappeared, and is known only through fragments quoted by later writers, with approval by Irenaeus in "Against Heresies", and later with scorn by Eusebius of Caesarea in "Ecclesiastical History."

Eusebius calls Papias "a man of small mental capacity" (Hist. Eccl. 3.39.13), who mistook the figurative language of apostolic traditions. Whether this was so is difficult to judge without the text available; it is thought that perhaps Eusebius objected to Papias' premillenialism (chiliasm), which by the fourth century had been supplanted by the common church doctrine of amillennialism.

It was thought that Papias was "a hearer of John, and companion of Polycarp, a man of old time." According to another tradition, Papias shared in the martyrdom of Polycarp, (c. AD 155). Eusebius, who places him with Clement and Ignatius under the reign of Trajan, suggests that he wrote about AD 115. In all likelihood, he wrote his treatise in the first quarter of the second century. What remains today are only fragments of his Treatise quoted in the writings of Irenaeus and Eusebius.