Naming

I RECKON A MAN'S GOT A RIGHT to name himself, Davy Crockett could've said. "A man goes far to find out what he is", Theodore Roethke actually wrote. Jesus of Nazerath was named "Joshua son of Joseph" by his father. Ask any Christian historian. We can assume Jesus respectd his father, and his father's name. HIS name was translated from Aramaic to Greek to latin to German to English, with stops in between. Beijing, we used to call "Peking", until we finally decided to get it right. "I-vun" is now "E-Von'". Bach is now "Bah". "E-vuh" is now "A-vuh". But Joshua ben Joseph is still "Jesus", a Latin distortion of the Roman Empire written in stone by a religion which refuses to acknowledge and correct any and all error. "Only by errors which really irk us do we advance" said Johann Wolfgang von goethe. Let the self correction begin!