Marcel Simon (historian)

Marcel Simon (10 April 1907 in Husseren-Wesserling – 26 October 1986 in Strasbourg) was a French specialist in the history of religions, particularly relations between Christianity and Judaism in antiquity.

Simon received an honorary doctorate by the Faculty of Theology at Uppsala University in 1980.

[1] His major work, Verus Israel, was published in 1948; it has been described as 'seminal'.

[2] He was closely associated with Henri Marrou, appreciating his layman's approach to Vatican II.

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