History Main / HollywoodApocrypha

* The Claire Bible of ''Manga/TheSlayers'', which, in the kanji, actually does translate to "Book of Revelations." It's a book of seemingly infinite wisdom that was gifted to humanity by the demon-gods of that world. It's so massive that most of the copies are contained piecemeal on massive lithographs and the original copy occupies its own plane of existence.

* As explored by Bob Price in the non-fiction book "The Paperback Apocalypse," this is a frequent feature of apocalyptic/anti-christ related fiction.

* Literature/TheBookOfMormon is near-universally[[note]]by pretty much everyone who is NOT Mormon or one of their offshoots[[/note]] agreed to have errors and phrasing consistent with this trope indicative of a man of Joseph Smith's education emulating the King James Bible's style. Whether this is indicative of him ''writing'' it whole-cloth or of him ''translating'' something given from on high to the best of his ability is largely a matter of faith.

* ''Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail'' has a reading from the Book of Armaments (Chapter 2, verses 9-21), which gives the history and the correct usage of the HolyHandGrenade of Antioch.

* Taken UpToEleven with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6HCu9edk54 The Scroll of the Steamed Portions of Cham]], which retells the "[[Memes/TheSimpsons Steamed Hams]]" scene from ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' in Biblical Hebrew, complete with cantillation. The first few lines of the subtitles:

* {{Parodied|Trope}} in the ''WebAnimation/StrongBadEmail'' "[Recap/StrongBadEmailE168YourFuneral your funeral]]" when, during Strong Bad's funeral service, Homestar gives a reading from "the Book of Phone".

* "You talk about your psalms, you talk about your John 3:16. Well, [[Wrestling/StoneColdSteveAustin Austin]] 3:16 says I just kicked your ass!"

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* ''{{Webcomic/Homestuck}}''. [[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=005996 This page]] combines KJV-esque English with SophisticatedAsHell.

* Creator/DaveBarry's column "He Knows Not What He Writes" had this mysterious religious anecdote of the sort best explained by broadcast preachers:
-->"And Bezel saideth unto Sham: 'Sham,' he saideth, 'Thou shalt goest unto the town of Begorrah, and there shalt thou fetcheth unto thine bosom 35 talents and also shalt thou fetcheth a like number of cubits, provideth that they are nice and fresh."

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** In the novel ''Discworld/SmallGods'' pokes fun at this, where everything the Great God Om says [[spoiler:after a sudden influx of worshippers]] is a scriptural passage.

* The Shepherd's Journal from ''Disney/AtlantisTheLostEmpire''.

* The Crime Bible in Franchise/TheDCU, which even spawned its own mini-series, ''Crime Bible: Five Lessons of Blood'', each issue of which opened with a passage from the Crime Bible.
** Depending on who you ask, the Crime Bible may or may not be an in-universe example invented specifically for the purposes of the Religion of Crime.

* Literature/TheBookOfMormon is near-universally[[note]]by pretty much everyone who is NOT Mormon or one of their offshoots[[/note]] agreed to have errors and phrasing consistent with this trope indicative of a man of Joseph Smith's education emulating the King James Bible's style. Whether this is indicative from an artifact of him ''writing'' it whole-cloth or of him ''translating'' something given from on high to the best of his ability is largely a matter of faith.
* Pretty much ''any'' religious text of any religion translated into English will have numerous translations going out of their way to pretentiously imitate the King James Version's antiquated English for no reason whatsoever--even if the translation is from, say, the 1970's. The Koran in particular gets it bad.
* The King James Bible itself is kind of guilty of this - the style of English it used was already antiquated at the time it was written, it was just written that way to sound clever.

# And behold, it came to pass that the writers did name this law "HollywoodApocrypha," and did use it to generate diverse sacred texts and fake scriptures.

-->ALongTimeAgoInAGalaxyFarFarAway, God said, "Let there be lips!" And there were, and they were good.

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* The U.S. Court of Appeals ruling in ''Zim v. Western Publishing Co.'', 573 F.2d 1318 (5th Cir. 1978) ([[http://cases.justia.com/us-court-of-appeals/F2/573/1318/123615/ transcript here]]) starts out with a parody of the first chapter of Genesis ("In the beginning, Zim created the concept of the Golden Guides") and continues in biblical fashion for a short while:
-->Then there rose up in Western a new Vice-President who knew not Zim. And there was strife and discord, anger and frustration, between them for the Golden Guides were not being published or revised in their appointed seasons. And it came to pass that Zim and Western covenanted a new covenant, calling it a Settlement Agreement. But there was no peace in the land. Verily, they came with their counselors of law into the district court for judgment and sued there upon their covenants.
* Literature/TheBookOfMormon is near-universally[[note]]by pretty much everyone who is NOT Mormon or one of their offshoots[[/note]] agreed to have errors and phrasing consistant with this trope indicative of a man of Joseph Smith's education emulating the King James Bible's style. Whether this is an indicative and an artifact of him ''writing'' it whole-cloth or of him ''translating'' something given from on high to the best of his ability is largely a matter of faith.
* Pretty much ''any'' religious text of any religion translated into English will have numerous translations going out of their way to pretentiously imitate the King James Version's antiquated English for no reason whatsoever--even if the translation is from, say, the 1970's. The Koran in particular gets it bad.
* The King James Bible itself is kind of guilty of this - the style of English it used was already antiquated at the time it was written, it was just written that way to sound clever.
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* ''Series/StargateSG1'': The Book of Origin for the Ori. One episode even has a Prior (quoting the Book of Origin) squaring off against Cam Mitchell (quoting TheBible verses picked up from his religious grandmother).

---> '''Megatron:''' ''"...and there came a hero who said: 'Hurt not the Earth, nor the sea, nor the trees, nor the very fabric of time,' but the hero would not prevail!"''\\

* The ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' novel ''Discworld/SmallGods'' pokes fun at this, where everything the Great God Om says [[spoiler:after a sudden influx of worshippers]] is a scriptural passage.
-->"Will you help?"\\

* "You talk about your psalms, you talk about your John 3:16. Well, [[StoneColdSteveAustin Austin]] 3: 16 says I just kicked your ass!"

** Pretty much ''any'' religious text of any religion translated into English will have numerous translations going out of their way to pretentiously imitate the King James Version's antiquated English for no reason whatsoever--even if the translation is from, say, the 1970's. The Koran in particular gets it bad.

* In ''Theatre/TheBookOfMormon'', Arnold Cunningham, desperate to make the Book of Mormon relevant to Ugandans, starts interpolating his own apocrypha about AIDS, baby-raping and clitoridectomy. These passages include characters from ''TheLordOfTheRings'' and ''Franchise/StarWars''.

* TheNeverhood Chronicles, that very long tome you read in the [[ThatOneLevel Hall of Records]]. It's an AffectionateParody of the Old Testament; the gag is that it's written in modern vernacular.

* ''[[BeastWars Beast Wars]]'' has the Covenant of Primus, the Transformers equivalent of Literature/TheBible...although the parts we actually ''hear'' are all the equivalent of [[ApocalypseHow those bits at the end]] of the Bible.

* [[BeastWars Beast Wars]] has the Covenant of Primus, the Transformers equivalent of Literature/TheBible...although the parts we actually ''hear'' are all the equivalent of [[ApocalypseHow those bits at the end]] of the Bible.