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Controversies
Candida Moss joined with Joel Baden to write an article in the Daily Beast about a book by Michael Paulkovich, but other writers have pointed out that their article has many errors: the claim that Paulkovich no web presence, no Twitter account, that he claims to be a “Bible Scholar” and that there is no biographical information on him. It has been suggested that Moss and Baden never had Paulkovich’s book in their possession; one writer asked, "Did anyone who wrote about No Meek Messiah ever read it? I don’t think so. Or if they did they hid their guilt well from the public."

Moss and Baden suggest that consuls, generals, kings and emperors don’t write, yet seem unaware of Paulkovich’s appendix citing many who were prolific authors (e.g. Moss and Baden mention Vardanes and Tiberius; Paulkovich cited the publications of those men in his appendix on pages 347 and 348 of No Meek Messiah.) Moss and Baden claimed that one of the 126 sources Paulkovich cited who should have written about Jesus (Asclepiades) actually lived 100 years before Jesus, but they referenced the wrong Asclepiades (even linking to the wrong man at Wikipedia from their Daily Beast article), seemingly unaware of Paulkovich’s references and appendix - there were over 40 men of that name in ancient Prusa, Bithynia and Paulkovich referred to the Asclepiades who lived during Hadrian, late first century.

Other Christian writers who read the Moss/Baden article but had never read No Meek Messiah, yet published their own "reviews" are:
 * Billy Hallowell in The Blaze
 * Erick Erickson in The Resurgent
 * James McGrath in Patheos
 * Carey Lodge in Christianity Today
 * Ken Gilmore in BEREA
 * Amanda Casanova in Religion Today
 * Brian Mattson in a YouTube video