Dr Deane Galbraith

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, December). Tāwhaki among the Nephilim: Heroic descendants of Rangi-nui and Papatūānuku in the Māori Bible. Verbal presentation at the Aotearoa New Zealand Association for Biblical Studies (ANZABS) Conference, Auckland, New Zealand. Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs

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

2024

Journal - Research Article

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

Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs

2023

Journal - Research Other

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

Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs

2022

Journal - Research Article

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

Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs

Galbraith, D. (2022, December). 'And what a wonderful paradise they found here in New Zealand!': Edenic appeals in some recent Ngāti Hotu narratives. Verbal presentation at the Aotearoa New Zealand Association for Biblical Studies (ANZABS) Conference, Dunedin, New Zealand.

2021

Chapter in Book - Research

Galbraith, D. (2021). Heaven after the loss of Heaven. In D. W. Clanton, Jr & T. R. Clark (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of the Bible and American popular culture. (pp. 219-239). New York, NY: Oxford University Press.

2020

Chapter in Book - Research

Galbraith, D. (2020). Jeremiah never saw that coming: How Jesus miscalculated the end times. In J. West & N. P. Lemche (Eds.), Jeremiah in history and tradition. (pp. 150-175). Abingdon, UK: Routledge.

Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs

Galbraith, D. (2020, November-December). "Serious study... of the Bible": Billy Te Kahika, the New Zealand Public Party, Covid-19, and Biblical Conspiracy Theory. 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), Christchurch, New Zealand.

2019

Chapter in Book - Research

Galbraith, D. (2019). The origins of archangels: Ideological mystification of nobility. In R. J. Myles (Ed.), Class struggle in the New Testament. (pp. 209-240). Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.

Journal - Research Article

Shaver, J. H., Sibley, C. G., Sosis, R., Galbraith, D., & Bulbulia, J. (2019). Alloparenting and religious fertility: A test of the religious alloparenting hypothesis. Evolution & Human Behavior, 40, 315-324. doi: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2019.01.004

Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs

Galbraith, D. (2019, June). "Saying they had seen a vision of angels": The empty tomb narrative as vision report. Verbal presentation at the Trajectories in the Interpretation of Scripture Models, Issues and Prospects Conference, Dunedin, New Zealand.

2017

Chapter in Book - Research

Galbraith, D. (2017). The perpetuation of racial assumptions in biblical studies. In J. G. Crossley & J. West (Eds.), History, politics and the Bible from the Iron Age to the media age: Essays in honour of Keith W. Whiteham. (pp. 116-134). London, UK: T & T Clark.

Journal - Research Article

Galbraith, D. (2017). 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, 473-491. doi: 10.1017/S0028688517000042

2015

Chapter in Book - Research

Galbraith, D. (2015). The perfect penis of Eden and queer time in Augustine's reading of Paul. In C. Blyth & R. J. Myles (Eds.), Sexuality, ideology and the Bible. (pp. 1-19). Sheffield, UK: Sheffield Phoenix Press.

Journal - Research Other

Galbraith, D. (2015). [Review of the book The lost world of Adam and Eve: Genesis 2-3 and the human origins debate]. Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society, 58(1), 167-169. [Book Review].

2014

Chapter in Book - Research

Galbraith, D. (2014). Meeting God in the sound: The seductive dimension of U2's future hymns. In M. Grimshaw (Ed.), The counter-narratives of radical theology and popular music. (pp. 119-135). Palgrave Macmillan. doi: 10.1057/9781137394118_9

Journal - Research Article

Galbraith, D. (2014). Interpellation, not interpolation: Reconsidering textual disunity in Numbers 13-14 as variant articulations of a single ideology. Bible & Critical Theory, 10(1), 29-48. doi: 10.2104/bct.v10i1.583

Journal - Research Other

Galbraith, D. (2014). [Review of the book A more perfect Torah: At the intersection of philology and hermeneutics in Deuteronomy and the Temple Scroll]. Relegere, 4(1), 105-108. [Book Review].

2013

Journal - Research Other

Galbraith, D. (2013). [Review of the book The invention of the biblical scholar: A critical manifesto]. Relegere, 3(2), 409-414. [Book Review].

Galbraith, D. (2013). [Review of the books Criticism of Heaven: Marxism and Theology; Criticism of Religion: On Marxism and Theology II;; Criticism of Theology: On Marxism and Theology III]. Bible & Critical Theory, 9(1&2), 149-152. doi: 10.2104/bct.v9i1-2.570

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Galbraith, D. (2013). A rhetorical fusion of generations? Reconsidering Deuteronomy’s conception of Israelite community. Proceedings of the Australia & New Zealand Association of Theological Schools (ANZATS) Conference: Christians in Communities: Christians as Communities. (pp. 14). Retrieved from http://www.laidlaw.ac.nz

2012

Chapter in Book - Research

Galbraith, D. (2012). Fallen angels in the hands of U2. In S. Calhoun (Ed.), Exploring U2: Is this rock 'n' roll? Essays on the music, work and influence of U2. (pp. 179-194). Plymouth, UK: Scarecrow Press.

2011

Journal - Research Article

Galbraith, D. (2011). Drawing our fish in the sand: Secret biblical allusions in the music of U2. Biblical Interpretation, 19(2), 181-222. doi: 10.1163/156851511X557352

Journal - Research Other

Repphun, E., Galbraith, D., Sweetman, W., & Harding, J. (2011). Beyond Christianity, the Bible, and the text: Urgent tasks and new orientations for reception history [Editorial]. Relegere, 1(1), 1-11.

2010

Journal - Research Other

Galbraith, D. (2010). [Review of the book Jesus in an age of terror: Scholarly projects for a new American century]. Bible & Critical Theory, 6(3), 43-44. doi: 10.2104/bc100043

2009

Journal - Research Article

Galbraith, D. (2009). 'Would you condemn me that you may be justified?': Job as differend. Bible & Critical Theory, 5(3), 37.1-37.14. doi: 10.2104/bc090037

Journal - Research Other

Galbraith, D. (2009). [Review of the book The ontology of space in biblical Hebrew narrative: The determinate function of narrative 'space' within the biblical Hebrew aesthetic]. Bible & Critical Theory, 5(3), 45.1-45.3. doi: 10.2104/bc090045