O. Palmer Robertson was born in 1937 and is a graduate of Belhaven College and Westminster Theological Seminary. He gained his ThD at Union Theological Seminary in Richmond, Virginia, has pastored congregations in Mississippi, Pennsylvania, Missouri and Maryland, and has taught in Westminster, Reformed, Covenant, and Knox Seminaries in the U.S.A. For almost thirty years he and his wife Joanna served in Africa with African Bible Colleges. Now residing in North Carolina, they have set up Consummation Ministries to communicate “All God’s truth to all God’s world consummating in Christ”.
Palmer Robertson is a well-known conference speaker in many parts of the world, and the author of numerous books and commentaries, including Jonah: A Study in Compassion, and The Final Word, both published by the Trust. He has also edited and revised Matthew Henry’s treatise on prayer, published by the Trust as A Way to Pray.