Abstract:
This article combines the model of critical spatiality with collective memory and religious
imagination in order to create a theoretical basis from which to study biblical texts. The
combination of critical spatiality, collective memory and religious imagination amount to
remembered space as hermeneutical method. In order to be able to employ remembered space
as hermeneutical method, as applied to Psalm 90 in this article, a number of aspects must be
considered. These aspects include the different dimensions of space as per spatial theory, the
bases of ancient Near Eastern worldview and spatial orientation, as well as the theoretical
principles of collective memory.
CONTRIBUTION: After considering all of these aspects, the article argues that remembered space
provides a fresh perspective on the interpretation of biblical texts, highlighting the spatial
notions, collective memory and imaginative outcomes underlying biblical texts. As a case in
point, Psalm 90 employed remembered space through imaginative remembering to reimagine
stability, identity and faith in a post-exilic time of crisis, instability and trauma.
