Dr Deane Galbraith

2025

Journal - Research Article

Galbraith, D. (2025). Ngāti Hotu in Paradise: How contemporary Hotu in Aotearoa New Zealand defend their white pre-Polynesian settlement theory. Journal of the Bible & its Reception, 12(1), 133-166. doi: 10.1515/jbr-2023-0001

Galbraith, D. (2025). Unveiling the length and girth of John's Millennium, part 1 (length): Comparing Revelation 20 with the Apocalypse of Weeks. Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha, 35(1), 61-76. doi: 10.1177/09518207251352616

Galbraith, D. (2025). Unveiling the length and girth of John's Millennium, part 2 (girth): Comparing Revelation 20 with book 6 of Virgil's Aeneid. Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha, 35(1), 77-98. doi: 10.1177/09518207251352624

Journal - Research Other

Galbraith, D. (2025). [Review of the book Ancient Israel, Judah, and Greece: Laying the foundation of a comparative approach]. Studies in Religion. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1177/00084298251324256

Galbraith, D. (2025). Religion without scare quotes: Cognitive science of religion and the humanities. Religion, Brain & Behavior, 51(1), 49-57. doi: 10.1080/2153599X.2023.2234441

2024

Chapter in Book - Research

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.

Journal - Research Article

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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].

2023

Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs

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.

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

Journal - Research Other

Galbraith, D. (2017). [Review of the book Joshua 1-12: A new translation with introduction and commentary]. Bible & Critical Theory, 13(1), 99-102. [Book Review].

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