Plus the term “theotokos,” implies the dogma of the Incarnation, which was defined by the series of councils ending at Chalcedon. It is a product of that controversy.
Indeed it does, Mary also represents Israel, since Jesus’ “Jewishness” comes from His mother. From the Talmud, it has always been a Jewish practice that matrilineal descent was what guaranteed ones’ status as a member of the people of the covenant.
So, it can even be said that the woman in the Revelations scripture is Israel, but the mystery of the incarnation is that the abstracts are made concrete.
The great truth of the incarnation is that what was a foreshadowing, and anagogic sense of God’s interactions with His people is made real in a tangible way.
Jesus is the concrete way. He is the Truth. He is the life.
He says that He is the light of the world.
He is the tangible figure of the intangible and metaphysical.
Mary thus represents Israel in a concrete way, because from before time she was foreshadowed and prepared for in God’s plan to be the mother of God.
Mary is the mother of the tangible presence of God foreshadowed in scripture.
She is the virgin, who could not possibly bear a child since she had no husband. Lk 1:34.
Thus all the biblical figures of women who asked for the grace of God to bear a son, who was their inheritance, is a representation of the struggle of Israel, and the nativity of our lord.
Israel was eagerly awaiting a savior who would restore the fortunes of Jacob. Jer 30:18. And in Mt 1:23 ‘Behold, a virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and his name shall be called Emmanuel” (which means, God with us).’
Which is from Isaiah 7:14: “Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign: The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and will call him Emmanuel.”
The important fact to remember is that the incarnation is the most complete sign of God’s presence among us.
All of biblical history is caught up into the coming of Jesus, and His passion and death, and His resurrection.