Yehezqiyah, also rendered in English as Hezekiah, was a governor of
Judea
Judea or Judaea ( or ; from he, יהודה, Standard ''Yəhūda'', Tiberian ''Yehūḏā''; el, Ἰουδαία, ; la, Iūdaea) is an ancient, historic, Biblical Hebrew, contemporaneous Latin, and the modern-day name of the mountainous sou ...
- probably the last governor during the
Persian
Persian may refer to:
* People and things from Iran, historically called ''Persia'' in the English language
** Persians, the majority ethnic group in Iran, not to be conflated with the Iranic peoples
** Persian language, an Iranian language of the ...
period when the province was known as Yehud or
Yehud Medinata
Yehud, also known as Yehud Medinata or Yehud Medinta (), was an administrative province of the Achaemenid Persian Empire in the region of Judea that functioned as a self-governing region under its local Jewish population. The province was a part ...
, or possibly (also) during
Ptolemaic rule at the beginning of the
Hellenistic
In Classical antiquity, the Hellenistic period covers the time in Mediterranean history after Classical Greece, between the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC and the emergence of the Roman Empire, as signified by the Battle of Actium in ...
period in the region.
"Yehezqiyah the governor" coins
Yehezqiyah is identified as ''yhzqyh hphh'', 'Yehezqiyah ha-pechah' ("Yehezqiyah the governor") by the inscription on a coin type dated to the late fourth century, possibly around 335 BCE, one of which was found at
Beth Zur, and some specialists are arguing that the coin might also be of a slightly later date, from the time when Persian rule was replaced by the Ptolemaic.
The inscription can also be rendered in English as "the governor Hezekiah".
See also
*
Governors of Yehud Medinata
References
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4th-century BCE Jews
Satraps of the Achaemenid Empire