Prophetic missions tend to be seen as a single man’s work, uplifted by God and their followers, but performed by an individual with tremendous faith and endurance. This paper presents an alternative reading of the actions and moral deliberations of women who were active in biblical stories alongside the main prophets, divided by the part they played in said prophet’s lives, either as mothers or wives. We argue that their acts and moral debates can be analyzed under the Ethics of Care, more specifically, under the five characteristics identified by Virginia Held that position care as both a value and a practice. By the end of this thesis, we affirm that relationships of motherhood and marriage uplifted the works of the prophets, as the women took crucial decisions that supported the work enthroned to them by God, affecting the religious and social world as we know it through their caring relations.
