With all the damage biblical religion from the “West” has inflicted upon bodies, psyches, cultures, and lands, how can we engage ourselves with such a problematic text and history? What might ethics of interpretation mean in the context of this tradition? In this essay, I propose that many of us already have deep psychological entanglements with the text and tradition through our cultural, if not personal and familial, histories. I also argue that sex and gender theorists (particularly for this essay, Julia Kristeva and Judith Butler) offer the best modes for thinking about the relationship between the biblical canon and identity as well as some ethical considerations in interpretation. I articulate this ethics of interpretation through the noncanonical text the Gospel of Mary and point to ways in which “unmaking” is always already part of an ethical making of meaning.