Biographies

Sergey Panfilov is a PhD student in biblical studies at Andrews University whose work in biblical theology and exegesis is anchored in the original languages and equipped by twenty years of software and data engineering.

Sergey Panfilov is a PhD student in biblical studies at Andrews University. His research in biblical theology and exegesis focuses on the Pentateuch and Daniel in the Hebrew Bible and on Hebrews and Revelation in the New Testament, and he also works on the hermeneutics of contextualization. His work is anchored in the original languages and equipped by twenty years of software and data engineering.

Sergey Panfilov is a PhD student in biblical studies (Old Testament, with a New Testament cognate) at Andrews University. His research in biblical theology and exegesis focuses on the Pentateuch and Daniel in the Hebrew Bible and on Hebrews and Revelation in the New Testament; building on that work, he also studies the hermeneutics of contextualization. He works in Biblical Hebrew, Greek, Aramaic, Akkadian, and Ugaritic. Before turning to biblical studies full time, he spent twenty years as a software architect in Norway and Russia; today he applies that experience as a research analyst at the university’s Center for Biblical Learning and Computing, training machine-learning models on the syntax of the Septuagint.

Sergey Panfilov is a PhD student in biblical studies (Old Testament, with a New Testament cognate) at Andrews University. His research in biblical theology and exegesis focuses on the Pentateuch and Daniel in the Hebrew Bible and on Hebrews and Revelation in the New Testament; building on that work, he also studies the hermeneutics of contextualization for pastors and churches. In November 2026 he presents on the heavenly-earthly sanctuary service as the Bible’s hermeneutical center at the Evangelical Theological Society and on Jesus’s prayer in Hebrews 5:7 at the Society of Biblical Literature. His chapter on contextualization is forthcoming in 2027, and he is preparing a commentary on Leviticus and Hebrews for a Russian study Bible. He works in Biblical Hebrew, Greek, Aramaic, Akkadian, and Ugaritic, and reads French and German. He holds an MA in Religion from Andrews University and a master’s degree in applied mathematics from Moscow State University. Before turning to biblical studies full time, he spent twenty years as a software architect in Norway and Russia; today he is also a research analyst at the university’s Center for Biblical Learning and Computing. He lives in Michigan with his wife; they have three grown-up sons.