Adrian J. Boas
On Sandcastles
Whenever I think of a country house, a Wodehouseian vision comes to mind, a rather grand ivy-covered Palladian or Neo-Gothic mansion with...
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Adrian J. Boas
- Dec 28, 2020
- 4 min
On a Sometime Safe Haven
Two occasions driving through this village might have ended badly for me. Once, having just passed the turnoff leading to the ruins and...
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Adrian J. Boas
- Dec 25, 2020
- 3 min
On Seeking a Likeness
The thing about castles is that no two are quite the same. T.E. Lawrence knew that when, on trying to deal with how they evolved in form...
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Adrian J. Boas
- Dec 21, 2020
- 4 min
On Natures Gifts and a Mysterious Balm
My father once gave me a lump of bauxite that he had brought back on one of his travels. It was rust-coloured stone consisting of small...
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Adrian J. Boas
- Dec 18, 2020
- 3 min
On Taking the Reins
Through the issue of abdication, the highly popular and controversial television series, The Crown, the fourth season of which recently...
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Adrian J. Boas
- Dec 14, 2020
- 4 min
On Undeground Activities
It must be different for those who spend much of their time below the ground. Coalminers for example, would not experience the sensation...
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Adrian J. Boas
- Dec 11, 2020
- 5 min
On Evolution
We walk across the dusty parking lot, under the plantation of tall Eucalyptus trees and along to the right until we can cross to a track...
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Adrian J. Boas
- Dec 7, 2020
- 4 min
On Ole Jordan, Cold and Dark
Biblical associations have the magical capacity to turn hills into mountains, lakes into seas and streams into rivers. The Kineret, in...
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Adrian J. Boas
- Dec 3, 2020
- 4 min
On Leadership, Character and Wealth
Great leaders are largely forgiven their sins, but even the greatest among them are exposed to criticism in their lifetimes, and by...
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Adrian J. Boas
- Nov 30, 2020
- 6 min
On Concord of Sweet Sounds
The man that hath no music in himself, nor is moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils....
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Adrian J. Boas
- Nov 26, 2020
- 4 min
On Murder Most Foul
When P.G. Wodehouse's delightedly loony hero, Betram Wooster wished to buy his butler, a gift, Jeeves requested a new and authoritatively...
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Adrian J. Boas
- Nov 23, 2020
- 4 min
On the Great Adversary
In the spring of 1971, shortly after completing basic training I spent a couple of weeks doing guard duty in a fort on the Bar Lev Line -...
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Adrian J. Boas
- Nov 20, 2020
- 3 min
On Private Matters made Public
Not long ago I was invited to give a talk at the Albright Institute of Archaeological Research on Salah ad-Din Street in East Jerusalem....
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Adrian J. Boas
- Nov 15, 2020
- 4 min
On Commemorating a Remarkable Tree
It sits low in the valley, in the vicelike grip of its buttresses. The ancient stones contrast with the clean white boxes of the museum...
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Adrian J. Boas
- Nov 11, 2020
- 2 min
On Medicine, Mutation and Wisdom
This week a tired world has been encouraged by the news that major progress has been made in the development of a vaccine for the Covid...
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Adrian J. Boas
- Nov 8, 2020
- 3 min
On Historical Intrusions
Several years ago, I was involved in the excavation of a Frankish village that was identified and partly exposed in a northern Jerusalem...
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Adrian J. Boas
- Nov 5, 2020
- 3 min
On the Forsaken Desert
I was sixteen when my family arrived in Arad, a small town south-east of Beer Sheva in the mountains above the Dead Sea. It was starkly...
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Adrian J. Boas
- Nov 2, 2020
- 4 min
On Proportions and Rhetoric
The steep talus, pale grey stones with shallow and narrow margins, is twelfth century. It is crowned with a reconstructed crenelation of...
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Adrian J. Boas
- Oct 29, 2020
- 4 min
On Fact and Fiction
When he produced this painting of the Battle of Mont Gisart, the French artist, Charles-Philippe Larivière, working in the tradition of...
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Adrian J. Boas
- Oct 26, 2020
- 4 min
On a Pleasant and Precious Aroma
On occasion one comes across a flower or fruit, the scent of which is so captivating that its sensual record is permanently engraved in...
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