Papias' Logia: Making me wanna take pictures...

Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Making me wanna take pictures...

I watched "Framed" again last night on the Ovation Channel. Pretty good stuff. I appreciated seeing the photo montages of Rodchenko, a Soviet artist during the 1920's. His magazine layouts were pretty cool. But then they showed his oringinal photos, and how they were doctored for publication.

Boy am I glad I have Tivo! They cut to commercials way too much, and they interrupt the flow of the program. And it cuts down on the amount of time it takes to watch. But I still have to keep my hand on the volume, cause some of the music is just so annoying.

This photo above was not on the program. And yes, it is a photo - not a painting. It's called "Grace" for obvious reasons, was taken back in 1918.

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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.