Ben reading some back issues of Biblical Archaeology Review, have you?
I'm only kidding around here, mentioning that particular publication, but I do remember there being some long running, heated exchanges, back about ten years or so. I haven't kept up with it, much at all since then.
For the lurkers here, I'll add that these disputes that I'm referring to where not concerning matters of theology, or disputes of a 'religious' nature, but were instead, between those that held mainly 'secularist historian' viewpoints.
woops, spelled “Been”, not with only one “e”. I really wasn’t asking about anyone named “Ben”, there, AG.
Some of the behavior became embarrassing, IMHO - unlike the scholar disputes over where exactly the temple was located.