Marcel Simon (historian)

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| name = Marcel Simon

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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1907|04|10|df=y}}

| birth_place = Husseren-Wesserling, France

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1986|10|26|1907|04|10|df=y}}

| death_place = Strasbourg, France

| nationality = French

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| occupation = historian

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| known_for = history of religions

| notable_works = Verus Israel

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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.{{Cite web|url=http://www.uu.se/en/about-uu/traditions/prizes/honorary-doctorates/theology/|title=Honorary Doctors of the Faculty of Theology - Uppsala University, Sweden|website=www.uu.se|language=sv|access-date=2017-02-17}}

His major work, Verus Israel, was published in 1948; it has been described as 'seminal'.[https://books.google.com/books?id=dKqNtpB2EX8C&dq=%22marcel+simon%22+seminal&pg=PA18 Listening to Trypho: Justin Martyr's Dialogue Reconsidered]

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