It is even thought by some that "Barrabas" may have had the full name of "Yeshua bar Abbas" or Jesus Barrabas -- a revolt by a person of that name was recorded by the Romans.

See this section in Wikipedia. I don't believe every wiki I run into, but the basic thrust of this section is right on the money: the canonical gospels say that the insurrectionist released at the crowd's behest, like the one left to be crucified, was named "Jesus Barabbas": "Salvador Fatherson", so to speak. It is this sort of thing that (while not buying into any particular alternative theory of how Jesus was an amanita mushroom or a space alien or Mary Magdalene's secret hubby or anything) makes insisting on the gospels (canonical or otherwise) as straightforward historical sources problematic for me.

Haruo

PS: And DaveO, AR282 was partly right, I think; there were places where you seemed to be confusing the Jesus/Savior/Soter etymologies with the Christ/Messiah/Anointed ones.