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Assefa, Daniel

Addis Ababa University (AAU); Tibeb Research and Retreat Center, Ethiopia.

Daniel Assefa is Assistant professor in Addis Ababa University (AAU: Linguistics and Philology Department) and director of Tibeb Research and Retreat Center. He got his masters in Biblical Sciences from the Pontifical Biblical Institute of Rome and his PhD in Biblical Theology from the Catholic Institute of Paris. His research interests include 1 Enoch, Second Temple Judaism and Origins of Christianity, Ethiopian biblical hermeneutics, the textual history of the Ethiopic Bible, and apocalyptic literature. He is author of l’Apocalypse des animaux (1 Hen 85-90): une propagande militaire? (Leiden: Brill, 2007) and Space and Time in 1 Enoch 1-36; A Narrative Critical Analysis, 2018 (UNISA, Unpublished dissertation).

Delamarter, Stephen – co-director

Portland, Oregon

Steve Delamarter lives in Portland, Oregon USA. He received his PhD from Claremont Graduate School working with Dr. James A. Sanders in an emphasis on the Old Testament and Early Judaism. He has served as chair of the Society of Biblical Literature's section on The Textual Criticism of the Hebrew Bible, and was founding chair of the section on Ethiopic Bible and Literature. For several years he served on the board of the Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion and did frequent consulting in the area of online pedagogy. Since 2005 he has directed the Ethiopic Manuscript Imaging Project which has digitized over 12,000 manuscripts in North America, Ethiopia, Kenya, South Africa, England, and Ireland.

Jost, Garry

Senior Software Engineer, Sage Intacct Software Company, San Jose, California, living in Gig Harbor, Washington, USA

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Lee, Ralph

Oxford Centre for Mission Studies, living in Cambridge, UK

Ralph Lee lives in Cambridge with his family, having lived and worked in Ethiopia for a total of 16 years, first teaching engineering, and later, following doctoral studies at SOAS University of London, theology at the Holy Trinity Theological College in Addis Ababa. His research focusses on Ethiopian texts, especially the traditional commentary of the Ethiopia Orthodox Church, especially commentary on 1Enoch, and more broadly on Ethiopian thought, and the contemporary religious profile of Ethiopia, especially on relations between Evangelical and Orthodox Christian expressions.

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Niccum, Curt – co-director

Abilene Christian University, Abilene, Texas.

Curt has an M.Div. from Abilene Christian University where he focused on Greek New Testament with Carroll Osburn. At Notre Dame, where he earned his Ph.D., he helped Eugene Ulrich edit five volumes of Discoveries in the Judaean Desert and wrote a dissertation on the book of Acts in Ethiopic under Greg Sterling and James van der Kam. Curt is now Professor of Bible and Assistant Director of ACU’s Center for the Study of Ancient Religious Texts. He is a member of the International Greek New Testament Project Committee. He is co-editor of Colossians for the Novum Testamentum Graecum Editio Critica Maior (ECM) and is responsible for the Ethiopic evidence for the other ECM volumes.

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Prather, James

Abilene Christian University, Abilene, Texas.

James has a bachelor's degree in computer science, a masters in applied cognition and neurosceicne, two masters in religion (where he learned multiple semitic languages including Ge'ez), and a Ph.D. in computer science. James' research interests are in digital humanities and human-computer interaction. Recent work has focused on novice programmer interaction with compilers, error messages, and large language models (like ChatGPT).

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