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Early Christian apocryphal and conical documents present us with grotesque images of the human body, often combining the playful and humorous with the repulsive, and fearful. First to third century Christian literature was shaped by the discourse around and imagery of the human body. This study analyses how the iconography of bodily cruelty and visceral morality was produced and refined from the very start of Christian history. The sources range across Greek comedy, Roman and Jewish demonology, and metamorphosis traditions. The study reveals how these images originated, were adopted, and were shaped to the service of a doctrinally and psychologically persuasive Christian message.

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Istvan Czachesz is Fellow of the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies and Privatdozent of the University of Heidelberg. He is the author of Commission Narratives: A Comparative Study of the Canonical and Apocryphal Acts (Leuven, 2007), co-editor of The Apocalypse of Peter (Leuven, 2003), The Visio Pauli (Leuven, 2007), and Changing Minds: Religion and Cognition through the Ages (Leuven, 2010). In Hungarian, he is the author of Gaia's Two Faces (Budapest, 1996), co-author of Codex D in the Book of Acts (Budapest, 1995), editor of Disciples, Wonderworkers, Martyrs (Budapest, 1997), and translator of Tyconius' Book of Rules (Budapest, 1997).

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