Tarantino is paying homage to Sonny Chiba rather than the Bible. Chiba used to give poetic speeches in the style of
Ezekiel 25:17 to his victims before doing them in.

Chiba is also mentioned in the beginning of "True Romance" (written by Tarantino) as well, and the main characters of the film attend a Sonny Chiba film festival where you can see him giving a speech (in Japanese) before a fight scene.

Not to mention the fact that Chiba plays Hatori Hanso.

You mean that isn't what the bible says happened to Tony Rocky Horror?

People change words from the bible? Unpossible! That's the church's job!

No. The Tony Rocky Horror stuff is lifted verbatim from the Bible.

It's that whole "furious anger" speech that's all made up and stuff.

The recording of that scene on the soundtrack is attributed to Tarantino.

So, Tarantino gets at least partial credit for the Bible.

Sonny Chiba ain't so much a good guy as he is just a bad motherfarker.

Someone activate the Romero-signal!

Check out the big brain on David Plotz. He's one smart motherfarker.

I have a degree in biblical studies, so I'm getting a kick out of Mr. Plotz's quaint little column.

/really
//atheist, too

What?

Yeesh. Talk about a craptastic blog.

WTF!?! Samuel L. is still cool saying it, and there ain't a gottdam thang you can do about it!

Who gives a fark?

/No seriously. Who gives a fark?

JTorres176: People change words from the bible? Unpossible! That's the church's job!

Actually now they just retranslate it from the Greek. Some retranslate from the Hebrew and the Greek. What they don't say is this story of how the one they are translating FROM reached it's final state. The Tankakh/OT was redacted from oral tradition and compiled probably by Ezra during the Babylonian Captivity. The NT sources are so numerous, you have to read up on that part yourself. Then there was the council of Nicea/Editorial Review Board. I guess those Gnostics really pissed them off.

What a damned mess.

/thread jack but doesn't care

Pff, no duh the passage is misquoted. You think there'd be this many athiests if the bible said shiat like that?

Hebrew, Greek, and Aramaic.

Smitty's a farking ass for making a headline out of one tiny portion of the article. You work for FOX News or something? Don't invite me to RTFA if TFA has nothing to do with the headline.

I mean, of course many people have changed the words in the bible before Tarentino did. I mean, if he did it, it must have been done somewhere better before.

/goddamned weak troll-fu

Roger Ebert actually did a pretty decent analysis on this passage, and the adaptation that it likely went through over the years that the character of Jules would have used it, how he incorporated and interpolated other biblical verses (Psalm 23 in particular), and how Jules likely adapted it to suit his needs. I read it in his '96 movie guide, and it was probably written even before that. But anyhow, thanks for the scoop.

Except for the commentary tracks and interviews that have said, for years, that they made the whole damn thing up for Pulp Fiction this might be interesting.

You don't think there was an intern around to fact-check the script against a Bible? There didn't have to be, and there doesn't need to be accuracy. Because it was never intended to be "real."

so basically this writer was looking around on wikipedia and was like "OH SNAP".

Sonny Chiba was a farking monster in that second flick in the Yakuza Papers series.

Plus he ripped a dudes groin out in The Street Fighter.

Scrotastic Method: You don't think there was an intern around to fact-check the script against a Bible? There didn't have to be, and there doesn't need to be accuracy. Because it was never intended to be "real."

What? A fictional hit man isn't a bible expert?

Huh!