For any book, the cover is a very important element to showcase the theme of the book. This is what the reader is looking at first.
My book cover is a very important moment in human history. In our world, until the time of Jesus we had many philosophers starting with Akhenaten (1350 BC), Buddha (580 BC), Confucius (540 BC), Manu (circa 500 BC), Socrates (469-399 BC), Plato (427-347 BC), Aristotle (384-322 BC), Vyasa - author of Bhagwat Gita (circa 250 BC), Ashoka (268-232 BC), Cicero (106-43 BC). They all contributed heavily to the wellbeing of humanity in one way or the other. But none of them spoke for or on behalf of women.
Akhenaten was kind to all and gave a respectable role for women in the family. Manu gave the law that woman is only a shadow of man. So, when the man is gone the woman has no existence — and he advocated 'Sathi': forcing her into the funeral pyre of her husband. The Greek philosophers gave a secondary role for women, locked in the kitchen. Vyasa strictly followed the Manu edicts. Neither Ashoka nor Cicero promoted women's rights. Cicero was numb about women.
Until: Jesus (4 BC to 33 AD), who made monumental statements for women and about the underprivileged, the suppressed, the oppressed and the meek. In the early period of his public life, he came across a situation where a 'stoning' was about to happen. In the middle there was a meek woman in tattered clothes sitting crouched, and a group of men around her with stones in their hands. Jesus stepped into that circle of men, held the woman by the wrist, raised her to her feet, turned round and round and challenged the crowd: "Who amongst you without sin may cast the first stone." All the stones from the men's hands fell to the ground. That moment when a prophet touched a harlot is a pivotal moment in human history — which none of the previous philosophers cared for.
I designed the book cover in classic mosaic style to look like medieval iconography taken out from the walls of Hagia Sophia. In the picture you will see the bright light emanating from the point of contact of the prophet and the harlot — the light of enlightenment.