Talk:Hezekiah (Khazar)

Problems with edits made by 继往绝可汗 in February 2024:
 * "Obadiah was murdered" is a fictional statement, not attested in any reliable sources.
 * There is no evidence that his reign lasted precisely from "809 - 815"
 * There is no evidence that Hezekiah was born in the "770s"
 * There is no evidence that Hezekiah died precisely in "815 AD"
 * There is no evidence that "Obadiah changed the rule of inheritance from the previously accepted from 'older brother to younger brother inheritance' to from 'father to son'." — Preceding unsigned comment added by 172.58.243.47 (talk) 18:44, 9 April 2024 (UTC)
 * This is not the place to insert original research speculations, which may include "Most likely it was Hezekiah who led the troops that captured the Derbent Emirate in 797." or "in 785 AD, became a co-monarch of his father Obadiah".
 * There is no evidence that Obadiah and Hezekiah "fought against the opposition nobility belonging to Christianity, Islam, and Tengriism". Mikhail Artamonov's История хазар (1962) is a partly unreliable work produced during the Soviet era which included explicitly antisemitic statements in one section in particular, which called Khazar leaders and nobles "a parasitic class with a Jewish coloration". It is better used for archaeological than for historical statements. Lev Gumilev's writings on the Khazars are often unreliable for the same reasons. In particular, the antisemitic Soviet scholars pretended that the Kabar rebellion had something to do with Khazar rulers like Obadiah imposing Judaism on unwilling followers of other religions, even though that alleged motivation is not stated in medieval documents.
 * You cannot make a declaration that Hezekiah was definitely a Khagan, as you did in the opening line where you changed it to "Hezekiah ben Obadiah Khagan was a khagan of the Khazars", because scholars debate whether Hezekiah was a Khagan or a Bek.
 * Scholars also debate whether Obadiah even existed since some versions of King Joseph's Reply didn't mention him.
 * The fact is that there are limited authentic medieval documents we can rely upon when writing narratives of the Khazar kagans and kings. 172.58.243.47 (talk) 18:39, 9 April 2024 (UTC)