ABSTRACT
I. Often In Westerns the hero, when faced by the most concrete of dilemmas, cites a passage from the Old Testament. 1 Words from Psalms or the Book of Ezekiel taken out of context slide smoothly and naturally into the contingent situation in which they are uttered. Philological preoccupations are out of place at a moment of danger, when revolvers are firing and when fighting against injustice. The biblical citation short-circuits with a practical urgency.
