Getatchew Haile is a MacArthur Fellow and has studied theology at the Coptic Theological College in Cairo, Egypt; social sciences at the American University in Cairo, Egypt; and Semitic philology at the Eberhard-Karls-Universitat Tubingen, Tubingen, Germany. He has also taught for over ten years at the Haile Sellassie I (now Addis Ababa) University, Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) before he moved to the United States in 1976. Haile is a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy and has served St. Johns University (Collegeville, Minnesota) as Curator of the Ethiopian Study Center, as Regents Professor of Medieval Studies, and as Cataloguer of Oriental Manuscripts, Emeritus.
Melaku Terefe is a priest in the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewohedo Church in Los Angeles, California.
Roger M. Rundell currently resides in Longview, Washington.
Daniel Alemu currently resides in Addis Ababa.
Steve Delamarter teaches Old Testament at the seminary of George Fox University. With Ato Demeke Berhane he has written A Catalogue of Previously Uncatalogued Ethiopic Manuscripts in England: Twenty-three Manuscripts in the Bodleian, Cambridge University and John Rylands University Libraries and in a Private Collection (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007).