1:2–3 If the word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah during the thirteenth year of Josiah’s reign, that would mean that Jeremiah was called about 627 BC, five years prior to finding the “book of the law” in Josiah’s eighteenth year, in 622/621 BC. But does the “thirteenth year” point to the year of Jeremiah’s birth or the year of his calling? J. Philip Hyatt and William L. Holladay (1986, 9–15) emphasize that even before Yahweh formed Jeremiah in the womb, he had known him and set him apart as one he had