Summary: In the first reading (post published September 3, 2017), Dr. Ehrman answers two questions from blog members: (1) why some conservative Christian theologians think believers no longer have “gifts of the Spirit” and (2) whether Matthew mistranslated the Hebrew word “young women” into the Greek word “virgin.” In the second reading (post published September 4, 2013), Dr. Ehrman examines Acts and Paul’s letters to show why there is reason to doubt Luke, the author of Acts, was personally famili
