Joseph Pathrapankal

Joseph Pathrapankal (29 September 1930 – 27 February 2022) was an Indian New Testament Scholar and Syro-Malabar priest belonging to the Carmelites of Mary Immaculate.

He first studied at the Jnana-Deepa Vidyapeeth in Pune and then went to the Pontifical Biblical Institute where he obtained a Licentiate in Sacred Scripture in 1960. He then became a Lecturer then Professor of New Testament, and from 1976 to 1979 and 1979 to 1985 the Vice-President and President at Dharmārām Vidya Kshetram (DVK), Bengaluru. On May 30, 1997 Pathrapankal received an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Theology at Uppsala University, Sweden.

Pathrapankal was also a member of the Pontifical Biblical Commission.

He was a former past President of the Society for Biblical Studies in India, and a member of the Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas.

Writings

 * Time and History: Biblical and Theological Studies

Pathrapankal again left for Rome on study leave and registered as a doctoral candidate with the Gregorian University and pursued research in New Testament studies and submitted a thesis titled Metanoia, Faith, Covenant: A Study of Pauline Theology  which was later published by Dharmārām Vidya Kshetram in 1971. Pathrapankal returned to India and continued teaching at Dharmārām Vidya Kshetram.