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Marcel Simon | |
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Born | |
Died | 26 October 1986 | (aged 79)
Nationality | French |
Occupation | historian |
Known for | history of religions |
Notable work | Verus Israel |
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.