What is the importance of the Church in the book, All of the Women of the Bible?

In context, there are two main meanings of the term. One is the Hebrew religious organization taken as a whole. The other meaning arrives later in book, with the onset of Jesus Christ as the Christian Church. The Church in one or the other of these forms appears throughout the book. During the chapter on Mary, the boy Jesus, as a twelve-year-old, heads to the Church. He is found by his parents but the author then shows that at or near to this time Jesus turned his life over to the Church and was educated for the role of Rabbi.