The theme of this year’s workshop is “Religion and Law,” which is a natural development of last year’s theme, “Epigraphic Habits.” First, many religious systems in the ancient world publicized the rules of cults and even occasionally deontological text, which recent epigraphic work has brought to light. Second, new historical and linguistic investigations have allowed us to contextualize legal documents more robustly than before. Finally, ancient history is witnessing a renewed emphasis, buttressed by new questions and techniques, on the study of law. The time is ripe to bring the fruits of that labor to bear upon the role of discourses of law in the self-articulation of cultic communities, and likewise in the regulation of such by the political communities in which they existed.