There was a Scripture Slam, writes Webster Bull, and it was orders of magnitude more significant than the "Know Your Bible" table that you sometimes see at Farmers' Markets and street fairs, usually staffed by the youth pastor from the local megachurch. In fact, the one Bull has in mind trumps even John Henry Newman's masterful "Apologia Pro Vita Sua," because it's the original.
Bonus points to Bull for wondering whether Akira Kurosawa thought about this (we already know that Shusako "Silence" Endo did):
...Then you come to Matthew 4, and the three temptations of Christ. Jesus and "the tempter" have what amounts to a Scripture Slam, fending each other off with passages from what we now know as the Old Testament. The second temptation is the kicker. The devil uses Scripture (the 91st Psalm in this case) to tempt Jesus. And what does Jesus do? Contradicts the devil with Scripture (Deuteronomy 6:16)!
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