Dear Dr. Barad, You must be as impressed as I am with how much Goanetters know about first century Palestine, etc. Anyway. I will skip Jesus the Christ's surname, but give you the surname of another Jesus who presumably lived before Jesus Christ. He was Jeshu ben Pandira. Its all esoteric material, and Steiner of Anthroposophy<http://wn.rsarchive.org/Lectures/EsoChristian/19111104p01.html> talked about this enity in a 1911 lecture in Leipzig. (Btw, the name Jesus has undergone multiple transliterations).
It a bit odd, but today I went to pick up a book by Richard Smoley, The Dice Game of Shiva (recommended by mt friend Madhav Chari from Chennai), but before I got to it--a book on Steiner's lectures, and the Leipzig lecture caught my attention. Such things happens to me often, but lets leave it at that. I believe that it behooves us to be reasonable with each other on Goanet, if we are to maintain some relationship over the next say two decades. My point being that with all our insecurities, it is as though a red flag has been shown to the bulls when one says, "But right now I am curious to know the SURNAME of our lord Jesus Christ!!!!" Even if you are a Christian, the question is a bit jarring. How about, "Can someone tell me what was Jesus's surname?", and perhaps also in a separate email. But before that anticipate that in the first place such things are known to a few, very few, and also fewer Catholics read the Bible. So I hope you checked out for yourself on Wiki, etc., or some encyclopedia. Do understand, that this is a suggestion and by now you must know I harbor no ill will towards you or others---although I do get up in arms sometimes for reasons other than encountering difference of I and the Other as opposed to the I, leading to We---related to Ahamkara. Having learnt, and learning from Samkhya, Sanathan Dharma, Zen etc., I really do believe that Indian Christians can too, as well as, there being a lot in western societies that we can all learn from. Anandane raha. Anandit dhrustit jag pahayla milel. Sagla purna honar. venantius j pinto
