In his brilliantly written book on ancient religions, Christoph Markschies introduces an astonishingly foreign Christianity that was deeply rooted in the world of pagan deities. He traces the connections between ancient religions and explains why it was only in the Middle Ages that the now common notion of God as a disembodied being prevailed. Does God have a body – and if so, how many? In antiquity, it was quite natural for educated Christians to believe that God, like the pagan gods, had a body. Christoph Markschies illustrates how the body of God was concretely envisioned, follows the philosophical and theological debates surrounding this topic, examines the ancient temples, and explores the numerous references between the Christian and Jewish God and the pagan deities.