The Overshadowing

This gripping novel imagines the life of a young girl in ancient Galilee who finds herself pregnant after being raped by an outlaw. Trapped in a dilemma as old as human history, Miriam responds with the same creativity that women have always grasped at.... And so begins the fictional story of the event that transformed the Western world. Who was the flesh-and-blood woman whose oldest son, a Jewish prophet, became the focus of a new spiritual path that neither he nor she would recognize if they could see it? Was Jesus's mother an eternal virgin? Or was she a real human being in whose suffering and joy modern women can find a true inspiration, a model with depth and substance for what womanhood can be.