Word: frye
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Over the years I've taught Hebrew, Arabic, early, middle and late Persian, Turkish and Pashto," Frye says. "And that's actually pretty difficult. One of the things people don't realize is that all those languages are very different. It would be like having one professor of romance languages...
...Frye says that he has also been involved with teaching Near Eastern religions like Manichaeanism and Zoroasterianism. Currently he teaches a course in Sogdian language, the language of people residing near the Soviet-Chinese border, the History of Pre-Islamic Central Asia, and middle Persian (300 to 700 A.D.) language...
...expertise in Persian studies led Frye to leave Harvard temporarily to become director of the Asia Institute at the University of Shiraz in Iran from 1967 to 1975. And it was while he was working at the Institute, coordinating programs for Middle Eastern students, that he collected much of the information with which he currently performs his own research on ancient Persian culture, including scrolls and reproductions of inscriptions which are more than 1500 years...
...Most of the things hangind over there," says Frye, referring to several yellow parchments in his office, "are Imperial inscriptions about a victory against the Romans or they are dictates from the Emperor or a lot of times, they are funerary inscriptions...
...Frye says that he collected his scrolls, which are relics from Zoroasterian religious rites, on an archeological expedition through the deserts of Iran...