Friday, June 18, 2010

Congratulations to James McGrath et al.

CONGRATULATIONS TO JAMES MCGRATH, with Charles Haberl and April De Conick,, who have been awarded a large NEH grant:
Butler Religion Professor Awarded Federal Funding

InsideINdianaBusiness.com Report

A Butler University associate professor of Religion has landed a $130,000 National Endowment for the Humanities grant to translate the Mandaean Book of John. James McGrath and his collaborators plan to spend the next two years producing a typed version of the text in the original language and translating the more than 200 pages of handwritten text.
UPDATE: The project now has a blog: The Mandaean Book of John .