Raymond-Jacques Tournay
Raymond-Jacques Tournay (1912-1999) was a French Dominican, member of the École Biblique, Biblical scholar and assyriologist. Honours. Tournay is recipient of two French titles: ordre national du Mérite (1972) then Légion d'honneur (1981). On 15 November 1994 the University of Fribourg awarded him an honorary degree for half a century of "both scientific activity, efforts to promote peace between Jews and Arabs, and concern for the poor and political prisoners ".