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LLB/BCom (Auckland), BTheol(Hons), PhD (Otago)

Senior Lecturer
5C25, 5th Floor, Richardson Central Tower
Tel +64 3 471 4232
Email deane.galbraith@otago.ac.nz

Deane's major areas of research are: ancient religion, ancient Judaism, New Zealand 'conspiracy theories', Māori spirituality, and Giant traditions in historical and contemporary religion.

Deane is Māngai Māori board member of the Aotearoa-New Zealand Association for Biblical Studies (ANZABS). He uri a Deane nō Ngāpuhi me Te Rarawa.

Teaching

Papers taught in 2025

Select publications

“Pigden Revisited, or In Defence of Popper’s Critique of the Conspiracy Theory of Society.” Philosophy of the Social Sciences 52, no. 4 (2022): 235–57.

“Heaven” In Oxford Handbook to the Bible in American Popular Culture. Ed. Dan W. Clanton and Terry Clark. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020.

“Jeremiah Never Saw That Coming: How Jesus Miscalculated the End Times” In Jeremiah in History and Tradition. Ed. Jim West. London: Bloomsbury, 2019.

“Whence the Giant Jesus and his Talking Cross? The Resurrection in Gospel of Peter 10.39–42 as Prophetic Fulfilment of LXX Psalm 18.” New Testament Studies 63, no. 3 (2017): 473-91.

“The Perpetuation of Racial Assumptions in Biblical Studies” In History, Politics and the Bible from the Iron Age to the Media Age. Ed. James G. Crossley and Jim West. London: Bloomsbury, 2016.

Publications

Crossley, J., & Galbraith, D. (2024, July-August). Shacked up with Christian fiction: Biblical scholars who write Christian novels. Verbal presentation at the International Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature (SBL), Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs

Galbraith, D. (2024, July-August). “Race-shifting” or “self-indiginization” as a lens to re-evaluate Judahite identification as “Israel”. Verbal presentation at the International Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature (SBL), Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs

Galbraith, D. (2024, November). Redescribing Christian origins: Retrospective on Jonathan Z Smith's Drudgery divine. Panel discussion at the Joint Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion (AAR), the Society for Biblical Literature (SBL), and the North American Association for the Study of Religion (NAASR), San Diego, USA. Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs

Galbraith, D. (2024, December). Why did Jews steal ‘Israel’? Developments that compelled ancient Jewish appropriation of Israelite identity. Verbal presentation at the Joint Conference of the Aotearoa New Zealand Association of Biblical Studies (ANZABS) & the Systematic Theology Association of Aotearoa New Zealand (STAANZ), Auckland, New Zealand. Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs

Galbraith, D. (2024). Religion, visions, and alternative historicity. In J. Crossley & C. Keith (Eds.), The next quest for the historical Jesus. (pp. 186-216). Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans. Chapter in Book - Research

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