LLB/BCom (Auckland), BTheol(Hons), PhD (Otago)
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: New Zealand 'conspiracy theories', ancient religion, the Pentateuch, resurrection narratives, and Giant traditions in historical and contemporary religion.
Deane is the current President of the Aotearoa-New Zealand Association for Biblical Studies (ANZABS), as well as the inaugural Māngai Māori board member of ANZABS. He uri a Deane nō Ngāpuhi me Te Rarawa.
Teaching
Papers taught in 2024
- RELS 241 / RELS 341 Religion, Conflict and Conspiracy Theory
- RELS 203 / RELS 303 Ancient Religion: Egypt to Mesopotamia
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
Galbraith, D. (2024). Indigenous identity appropriation in Aotearoa New Zealand: The white academics who claim to be indigenous Māori and the Māori who claim to be indigenous whites. Genealogy, 8, 129. doi: 10.3390/genealogy8040129 Journal - Research Article
Galbraith, D. (2024, July). The negotiation of conflicting afterlives in Revelation and the Aeneid: Reading John's Millennium alongside Virgil's Book 6. Verbal presentation at the Worlds Above and Below Interdisciplinary Conference, [Hybrid]. Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
Galbraith, D. (2024). Nephilim in Aotearoa New Zealand: Reading Māori narratives of Tāwhaki with Gen 6:1–4’s ancient divine heroes. Religions, 15, 568. doi: 10.3390/rel15050568 Journal - Research Article
Galbraith, D. (2023). Religion without scare quotes: Cognitive science of religion and the humanities. Religion, Brain & Behavior. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1080/2153599X.2023.2234441 Journal - Research Other
Galbraith, D. (2022). Pigden revisited, or in defence of Popper's critique of the conspiracy theory of society. Philosophy of the Social Sciences, 52(4), 235-257. doi: 10.1177/00483931221081001 Journal - Research Article