I. Bible – II. Systematic Theology
I. Bible
1. The deeds-and-consequences link is the idea, found especially in the Old Testament and in ancient Near Eastern wisdom literature, but also in the New Testament, of a correspondence between (good/evil) action and the consequences for the doer. What is controversial is the manner in which deeds and consequences take place in OT understanding. After preparatory work by Karl-Hjalmar Fahlgren (1932) and J. Pedersen (1934), the prevailing assumption until the middle…