HH: It can serve most of the examples we've discussed, theoretically all of them, since it is a category of usage for which these examples are cited. And the thought could be the same in the reader's mind as in the writer's. It does not have to be, as you suggest, definite for one and indefinite for the other. It is equally definite and generic for both. The one who escapes, if we provisionally accept that idea for Gen 14:13, would be, in both writer and hearer, a genus: "the one who escaped," used specifically of an otherwise unidentified person who came to Abraham with news of Sodom.
JW:
This is non-responsive to my question above. If you are willing to try harder I suggest you try to answer my one important question above:
What examples would you give in the Hebrew Bible of the Author being Definite and the immediate Hebrew hearer taking it as Indefinite?
JW:
If I understand the category correctly it is something definite to the author that is indefinite to the immediate Hebrew hearer. I don't think there is any such category of Hebrew as the previous sentence has a natural contradiction. If someone did accept such a category than they would have a huge amount of Uncertainty regarding whether any Author meant the Definite or Indefinite. An uncertainty I have Faith you do not possess.
JW:
Well you might want to do a current survey of translations. I believe that now the majority of Christian translations have "the".
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