Jesus Christ as your fantasy dinner guest

Accepted. If you’d like to get off to a fresh start, RT, I’ll try being clearer and more all-inclusive, in setting forth my understanding of the rules, and you might try giving me the credit I’m asking for in not just playing a gotcha game but rather trying to set a very high standard for historical personages. I’ve already stated that I think Jesus is possibly playable, according to those standards, based on his name alone (“Jesus of Nazareth”) and on the facts, such as they are: “A preacher, crucified by the Romans during Pontius Pilate’s rule.” It’s not much, and if someone wants to substantiate that more with facts (I’m not sure of the historical Pilate’s title–proconsul, maybe?), I’ll be fine with that. The remaining question I have concerns whether Jesus actually existed (likely, but far from definitely, to my mind) and if “Jesus of Nazareth” was the only such person with that name in that time crucified for unspecified crimes under Pilate (again, likely though not definitely).