The infertile body is arguably the biblical body par excellence. It is the infertile female body that propels salvation history. From Abraham and Sarah to the coming of Christ through the Virgin Mary, the barren body is inhabited by deep metaphorical meaning. Though fertility and birth are pervasive in Orthodox liturgy and theology through the iconography and hymnography of the Theotokos, the more nuanced significance of the infertile woman and the emptiness she embodies is generally obfuscated.