Tarcisio Stramare ‑ an Italian priest, a biblical scholar, writer and teacher – died on 20 March 2020 after suffering from Covid-19.
He was considered one of the greatest international scholars of Josephology.
Stramare studied in Rome and Jerusalem nas became religious of the Congregation of the Oblates of St. Joseph, being ordained a priest in 1952. A learned scholar, already in the 1970s he was called to occupy the chair of Sacred Scripture at the Pontifical Lateran University and, subsequently, at the Pontifical Urban University and at the Pontifical theological faculty "Marianum". He received some important assignments from the Holy See, both in the Pontifical Commission for the Nova Vulgata (since 1973), of which he was responsible for the editions of the t...
