Marcel Simon (1907-1986), scholar

Marcel Simon (1907-1986) was a French scholar.

Biography

Marcel Simon was a historian of the religions. He studied to the middle school of Thann, then to the high school Louis-le-Grand, then to the École normale supérieure. Received in the aggregation of history, he became a boarder of the French School of Rome. During the Second Worlds War he contributed to the Liberation from the Nazism. Expert of Scandinavian, Hebraic and Jewish culture, and of the Islam's world, he founded in Strasbourg the Institute of religions' history, and the Research center of religions' history. He become professor of Religions' History and he has been Doyen of the Faculty of Letters (Arts) in Strasbourg's University. He was a specialist of the relations between the Christianity and the Judaism in the early Christianity. His works not only follow the new appreciation about Judaism before 70, but also contributes to change the view about the Rabbinic Judaism after 135. For Simon the Judaism is a dynamic and proselytist religion, in competition with early Christianity, until the V century CE. He was member of the Institut de France (Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres).

Works on Second Temple Judaism

Books

• Les sectes juives au temps de Jésus (1960 Simon), book
• Jewish Sects at the Time of Jesus (1967 Simon), book (English ed.)

External Link

• Wikipedia
• Portail de revues en sciences humaines et sociales