[1411] The synagogue is called a 'house' just as the Babylonian temple is, and among names of synagogues (or of congregations) in modern times that form close parallels to the names of Babylonian temples may be instanced 'house of prayer,' 'glory of Israel,' 'tree of life.' The custom of naming Christian churches after the apostles represents a further development along the order of ideas current in Babylonia.
[1412] E.g., IIR. 50 (zikkurats); IIR. 61; IIIR. 66.
[1413] See Bezold Catalogue, etc., p. 1776 and elsewhere.
[1414] E.g., IIR. 54-60; IIIR. 67-69; VR. 43, 46.
[1415] IIR. 60, no. 1, obverse.
[1416] See p. [172]. Some of the gods invoked by Sennacherib (see p. [238]), as Gaga, Sherua, and perhaps also Khani, are foreign deities.
[1417] Assyrian and Babylonian Religious Texts, i. 56-59.
[1418] As Lagamal, Kanishurra.
[1419] See Peters' Nippur, ii. chapter x, "The History of Nippur."
[1420] Ib. ll. 260. (Published in Hilprecht's Old Babylonian Inscriptions, I. 1. pl. 21, no. 43. See also pl. 8, no. 15.)