describe the actual reception of a message (see 2:1*: “The word which Isaiah saw”; see also 1 Sam. 3:1*; Isa. 29:10*; Mic. 3:6*). Consequently, the title חזון (vision) corresponds to Isaiah’s understanding of himself, and it is appropriate that the prophet is not called a נביא (prophet) in the superscription and that his activity is not described by using some form of the root נבא (to prophesy) (cf. how different it is in Hab. 1:1*; Hag. 1:1* and often elsewhere; Zech. 1:1*). Only in the narrative