Ellis T. Rasmussen

Born to Wilford and Kate Nelson Rasmussen.{{cite news | title=Death: Philo Rasmussen | work=Deseret News | date=January 19, 1998 | url=http://archive.deseretnews.com/archive/print/608174/Death--Philo-Rasmussen.html | accessdate=2010-01-12 }}{{dead link|date=November 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}

As a young man in the 1930s, Rasmussen attended Snow College in Ephraim, Utah, where he was forensic manager of the student body and received an associates degree in education.{{cite news | title=BYU Professor Writes Lessons | work=Church News | publisher=Deseret News | date=August 29, 1964 | page=5 | url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=xtQmAAAAIBAJ&dq=ellis-rasmussen&pg=3894%2C6110465 | accessdate=2010-01-12}}{{cite news | title=Play Written In Utah Chosen at Snow College | work=Deseret News | date=October 12, 1934 | page=15 | url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=1-c0AAAAIBAJ&dq=ellis-rasmussen&pg=5989%2C4590554 | accessdate=2010-01-12}}

In the 1940s, Rasmussen married Oda Fonnesbeck. They had five children and resided in Orem, Utah. Rasmussen died at his home on June 6, 2011.{{Cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/deseretnews/obituary.aspx?n=ellis-theo-rasmussen&pid=151647661|title = ELLIS THEO RASMUSSEN Obituary (2011) Deseret News| website=Legacy.com }}

In 1939 Rasmussen served as a missionary for the LDS Church in the West German Mission.{{cite thesis | last=Boone | first=David F. | author-link=David F. Boone | title=The Worldwide Evacuation of Latter-day Saint Missionaries at the Beginning of World War II |type=Master's thesis | publisher=Department of History, Brigham Young University | location=Provo, Utah | page=251 | date=August 1981 | url=https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/4542/ | accessdate=2022-08-18 }} When the German borders were closing during the onset of World War II,{{cite journal | author=Rasmussen, Ellis T. | title=Border Incidents: Inside Germany | journal=Improvement Era | date=December 1943}} Rasmussen led several missionaries in an escape to Denmark, then back to the United States.{{cite news | author=Williams, Lane | title=LDS Missionaries Used Lessons Learned From WWI to Flee Germany | date=September 1, 1989 | work=Deseret News | location=Salt Lake City, Utah | url=http://archive.deseretnews.com/archive/61994/LDS-MISSIONARIES-USED-LESSONS-LEARNED-FROM-WWI-TO-FLEE-GERMANY.html | accessdate=2010-01-12 }}{{dead link|date=November 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} He completed his missionary service in the Southern States Mission,{{cite journal | author=Rasmussen, Ellis T. | title=Sidney B. Sperry, As I Remember and Appreciate Him | journal=Journal of Book of Mormon Studies | pages=xxv–xxvi | volume=4 | issue=1 | date=Spring 1995 | doi=10.2307/44758760 | jstor=44758760 | s2cid=165144843 | url=http://www.farmsresearch.com/publications/jbms/?vol=4&num=1&id=74 | accessdate=2010-01-12| url-access=subscription }} where he served as mission secretary.{{cite journal | title=Southern States Mission | journal=Liahona, the Elders' Journal | date=May 28, 1940 | volume=37 | issue=24 | page=572 | url=http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/u?/FHLiahonaEJ,11265 | accessdate=2010-01-12}}

Throughout his life Rasmussen served in the LDS Church, including as a bishop, high councilor,{{cite news | title=Sharon Stake Names New Counselor in Presidency | work=Church News | publisher=Deseret News | date=March 9, 1955 | page=8 | url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=GNg0AAAAIBAJ&dq=ellis-rasmussen&pg=6745%2C2575550 | accessdate=2010-01-12}} counselor in a stake presidency, temple ordinance worker, and Stake Patriarch in Orem, Utah.{{cite journal | author=Rasmussen, Ellis T. | title=Sidney B. Sperry: Student of the Book of Mormon | journal=Ensign | date=July 1986 | page=24 | url=https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/ensign/1986/07/sidney-b-sperry-student-of-the-book-of-mormon | accessdate=2010-01-12}}

After his mission, in 1942, Rasmussen received his bachelor's degree from BYU.{{Citation | title=Ancient Scripture Faculty | work=BYU 2007–2008 Undergraduate Catalog | page=334 | publisher=Brigham Young University | location=Provo, Utah | year=2007 | url=http://saas.byu.edu/catalog/2007-2008ucat/pdfportions/90relig.pdf | accessdate=2010-01-12 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090206004833/http://saas.byu.edu/catalog/2007-2008ucat/pdfportions/90relig.pdf | archive-date=2009-02-06 | url-status=dead }} That fall, he went to Weston, Idaho to teach in high school and LDS Church seminary. During the summer, he continued graduate work at BYU under his mentor, Sidney B. Sperry, who urged him to study Old Testament languages. Sperry helped Rasmussen become a part-time teacher at BYU in 1949. This helped him complete his master's degree in 1951{{Cite thesis | last=Rasmussen | first= Ellis T. | title=Textual Parallels to the Doctrine and Covenants and Book of Commandments as Found in the Bible | year=1951 | type=Master's thesis | publisher=Brigham Young University, Division of Religion | location=Provo, Utah | url=http://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/5059/ | accessdate=2010-01-12}}. and then begin teaching full-time at BYU.

With Sperry's encouragement, a sabbatical leave grant, and a private donation, Rasmussen pursued doctoral studies in the language and literature of the Old Testament at Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania{{cite web | title=Ellis T. Rasmussen | work=DeseretBook.com | publisher=Deseret Book | url=http://deseretbook.com/authors/author-info/360 | accessdate=2010-01-12 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090216100534/http://deseretbook.com/authors/author-info/360 | archive-date=2009-02-16 | url-status=dead }} from 1957 to 1958. He completed his Ph.D. at BYU in 1967, with his dissertation entitled "Relationship of God and Man According to a Text and Targum of Deuteronomy".{{cite journal | title=Advisory Committee Created | journal=Newsletter and Proceedings of the S.E.H.A. | publisher=The Society for Early Historic Archaeology | date=September 1972 | pages=10–11 | url=http://www.shields-research.org/General/SEHA/SEHA_Newsletter_131-2.PDF | accessdate=2010-01-12}}

Rasmussen taught at BYU for over thirty years.Beginning in 1949 to at least 1981. By the 1960s he was chair of the Biblical Languages Department, followed by chair of the Ancient Scripture Department,{{Cite thesis | last=Christensen | first=Carl Landus | title=An Analysis of Visual Religious Symbols Appearing in the Improvement Era, Ensign, and New Era Published by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1952-1972 | type=Master's thesis | date=August 1974 | page=14 | publisher=Department of Art and Design, Brigham Young University | location=Provo, Utah | url=http://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/4594/ | accessdate=2010-01-12}} and Assistant Dean of Religious Instruction.{{cite journal | author=Rasmussen, Ellis T. | title=What do we know of Jesus' use of the Hebrew scriptures? | journal=Ensign | date=January 1975 | page=23 | url=https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/ensign/1975/01/i-have-a-question | accessdate=2010-01-12}} In 1976, Rasmussen became dean of Religious Instruction and Director of BYU's Religious Studies Center, replacing Jeffrey R. Holland who had left to become Commissioner of Church Education. In 1981, Rasmussen stepped down from these positions and was replaced by Robert J. Matthews.Rasmussen served as dean from 1976-81. See: {{cite journal | author=McCarlie, V. Wallace | title=Sidney B. Sperry: Father of Religious Education at BYU | journal=Religious Education Review | date=Winter 2009 | url=http://byureligiouseducationreview.com/2009WinterSidneySperry.php | url-status=dead | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100126183328/http://byureligiouseducationreview.com/2009WinterSidneySperry.php | archivedate=2010-01-26 }}The Religious Education dean is also the RSC general director. For Rasmussen, see: {{cite journal | author=Anderson, Lavina Fielding | author-link=Lavina Fielding Anderson | title=A Respectful Meeting of the Minds | journal=Ensign | date=June 1978 | page=70| url=https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/ensign/1978/06/a-respectful-meeting-of-the-minds | accessdate=2009-05-18}} He received the Division Faculty Teaching Award from the BYU Division of Continuing Education in 1980,{{cite book | author=Richard H. Henstrom, Keith R. Oakes | title=A History of the Division of Continuing Education | publisher=s.n. | location=Provo, Utah | year=1997 | page=812 | url=https://ceweb.byu.edu/intra/pdf/history/chapter38.pdf | accessdate=2010-01-12 }}{{Dead link|date=August 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} and was retired from teaching by the mid-1980s.Professor emeritus of Religious Education in January 1987 {{cite journal | author=Rasmussen, Ellis T. | title=What are the best evidences to support the authenticity of the Book of Mormon? | journal=Ensign | date=January 1987 | pages=53–55 | url=https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/ensign/1987/01/i-have-a-question | accessdate=2010-01-12}}

At BYU Rasmussen had been an early member of the Society for Early Historic Archaeology in 1949, where he served on its advisory committee and as symposium chairman in 1972. He also spent time in Israel for BYU as a leader of travel study tours and Special Representative.Unpublished manuscript in BYU's Harold B. Lee Library: {{Citation | author=Smith, Robert J. | title=My Perspective of a Life's Journey | chapter=Church Activities and Positions | page=96 | date=February 2001 | chapter-url=http://catalog.lib.byu.edu/uhtbin/pcnum/2881853 | accessdate=2016-02-06}}

Rasmussen assisted several significant LDS Church publishing efforts. In the 1970s he served on the church's Correlation Committee{{cite journal | author=Rasmussen, Ellis T. | title=The Unchanging Gospel of Two Testaments | journal=Ensign | date=October 1973 | url=https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/ensign/1973/10/the-unchanging-gospel-of-two-testaments | accessdate=2010-01-12}} and on a committee to assist the church's Ensign magazine with scriptural articles.{{cite journal | author=Todd, Jay M. | title=Search the Scriptures | journal=Ensign | date=December 1972 | url=https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/ensign/1972/12/search-the-scriptures | accessdate=2010-01-12}} Being skilled in Hebrew, Rasmussen was given leave from his administrative duties at BYU during 1973–74 to work on the church's Scripture Publication Committee that produced the 1979 LDS edition of the Bible.{{cite journal | author=Anderson, Lavina Fielding | author-link=Lavina Fielding Anderson | title=Church Publishes First LDS Edition of the Bible | journal=Ensign | date=October 1979 | page=9 | url=https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/ensign/1979/10/church-publishes-first-lds-edition-of-the-bible | accessdate=2010-01-12}}{{cite journal | author=Mortimer, Wm. James | author-link = William James Mortimer| title=The Coming Forth of the LDS Editions of Scripture | journal=Ensign | date=August 1983 | page=35 | url=https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/ensign/1983/08/the-coming-forth-of-the-lds-editions-of-scripture | accessdate=2010-01-12}}{{cite journal | author=Harper, Bruce T. | title=The Church Publishes a New Triple Combination | journal=Ensign | date=October 1981 | url=https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/ensign/1981/10/the-church-publishes-a-new-triple-combination | accessdate=2010-01-12}} He later also assisted in developing the 1981 LDS editions of the Doctrine and Covenants and Pearl of Great Price.{{cite book | chapter=The Explanatory Introduction: A Guide to the Doctrine and Covenants | author=Manscill, Craig K. | author-link=Craig K. Manscill | title=Sperry Symposium Classics: The Doctrine & Covenants | publisher=Deseret Book | location=Salt Lake City, Utah | year=2004 | chapter-url=http://rsc.byu.edu/pubCManscillExplanatoryIntroduction.php | accessdate=2010-01-12 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100127060204/http://rsc.byu.edu/pubCManscillExplanatoryIntroduction.php | archive-date=2010-01-27 | url-status=dead }} He contributed articles on the Old Testament to the 1992 Encyclopedia of Mormonism[http://eom.byu.edu/index.php/Deuteronomy "Deuteronomy"], [http://eom.byu.edu/index.php/Abrahamic_Covenant "Abrahamic Covenant"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100109173409/http://eom.byu.edu/index.php/Abrahamic_Covenant |date=2010-01-09 }}, and [http://eom.byu.edu/index.php/Old_Testament "Old Testament"]. and participated in the encyclopedia's final editing.{{cite book | chapter=Acknowledgments | title=Encyclopedia of Mormonism | editor=Daniel H. Ludlow | editor-link=Daniel H. Ludlow | year=1992 | page=lxiii | volume=1 | chapter-url=http://eom.byu.edu/index.php/Acknowledgments | accessdate=2010-01-12| title-link=Encyclopedia of Mormonism }}

Rasmussen has been described as among the LDS scholars familiar with "biblical languages and modern critical methodology" seeking academic credibility, yet "dogmatic" and "apologetic" in their support of traditional LDS orthodoxy.{{cite journal | author=Hutchinson, Anthony A. | title=LDS Approaches to the Holy Bible | journal=Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought | date=Spring 1982 | volume=15 | issue=1 | pages=104–05 | doi=10.2307/45225055 | jstor=45225055 | s2cid=254390256 | doi-access=free }}

Rasmussen authored the LDS Church's 1965 Sunday School manual on the Old Testament, and his best known work is A Latter-day Saint Commentary on the Old Testament, published in 1993.

• {{Cite book

| last = Rasmussen

| first = Ellis T.

| author-mask= ——

| title = Patriarchs of the Old Testament

| year = 1965

| series = Gospel Doctrine Class manual for the Sunday Schools

| publisher = Deseret Sunday School Union

| location = Salt Lake City, Utah

}}

• {{Cite book

| last = Rasmussen

| first = Ellis T.

| author-mask= ——

| title = An Introduction to the Old Testament and Its Teachings

| series = Syllabus for Religion 301

| year = 1967

| publisher = Brigham Young University Press

| location = Provo, Utah

| pages = 161

}}

• {{Cite book

| last = Rasmussen

| first = Ellis T.

| author-mask= ——

| title = An Introduction to the Old Testament and Its Teachings

| series = Syllabus for Religion 302, Part II

| year = 1969

| publisher = Brigham Young University Press

| location = Provo, Utah

| pages = 134

}}

• {{Cite book

| last = Rasmussen

| first = Ellis T.

| author-mask= ——

| title = An Introduction to the Old Testament and Its Teachings

| series = Syllabus for Religion 301–302

| type = 2 volumes

| year = 1972

| publisher = Brigham Young University

| location = Provo, Utah

}}

• {{Cite book

| last = Rasmussen

| first = Ellis T.

| author-mask= ——

| title = An Introduction to the Old Testament and Its Teachings

| series = Syllabus for Religion 301, part I

| year = 1972

| publisher = Brigham Young University, College of Religious Instruction

| location = Provo, Utah

| pages = 204

| edition = 2nd

}}

• {{Cite book

| last = Rasmussen

| first = Ellis T.

| author-mask= ——

| title = An Introduction to the Old Testament and Its Teachings

| series = Syllabus for Religion 302, part II

| year = 1974

| publisher = Brigham Young University, College of Religious Instruction

| location = Provo, Utah

| pages = 157

| edition = 2nd

}}

• {{Cite book

| last = Rasmussen

| first = Ellis T.

| author-mask= ——

|author2=Ogden, D. Kelly

| title = Old Testament, Religion 301 Independent Study Student Manual

| year = 1992

| publisher = Brigham Young University, Department of Independent Study

| location = Provo, Utah

}}{{cite journal | author=Largey, Dennis | title=Refusing to Worship Today's Graven Images | journal=Ensign | date=February 1994 | url=https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/ensign/1994/02/refusing-to-worship-todays-graven-images | accessdate=2010-01-12}}

• {{Cite book

| last = Rasmussen

| first = Ellis T.

| author-mask= ——

| title = A Latter-day Saint Commentary on the Old Testament

| year = 1993

| publisher = Deseret Book

| location = Salt Lake City, Utah

| isbn = 0-87579-712-1

}}

• {{cite journal

| last = Rasmussen

| first = Ellis T.

| author-mask= ——

| title = Isaiah: A Messenger of God

| journal = The Instructor

| volume = 97

| date = February 1962

|type =Center insert

}}

• {{cite journal

| last = Rasmussen

| first = Ellis T.

| author-mask= ——

| title = Ezekiel: An Exiled Prophet

| journal = The Instructor

| volume = 97

| date = March 1962

|type =Center insert

}}

• {{cite journal

| last = Rasmussen

| first = Ellis T.

| author-mask= ——

| title = Hosea: A Prophet to Northern Israel

| journal = The Instructor

| volume = 97

| date = April 1962

|type =Center insert

}}

• {{cite journal

| last = Rasmussen

| first = Ellis T.

| author-mask= ——

| title = Joel: His Message Is for Us

| journal = The Instructor

| volume = 97

| date = July 1962

|type =Center insert

}}

• {{cite journal

| last = Rasmussen

| first = Ellis T.

| author-mask= ——

| title = Nahum: A Poet-Prophet

| journal = The Instructor

| volume = 97

| date = August 1962

|type =Center insert

}}

• {{cite journal

| last = Rasmussen

| first = Ellis T.

| author-mask= ——

| title = Habakkuk: A Prophet with a Problem

| journal = The Instructor

| volume = 97

| date = September 1962

|type =Center insert

}}

• {{cite journal

| last = Rasmussen

| first = Ellis T.

| author-mask= ——

| title = Haggai: Prophet to the Temple Builders

| journal = The Instructor

| volume = 97

| date = October 1962

|type =Center insert

}}

• {{cite journal

| last = Rasmussen

| first = Ellis T.

| author-mask= ——

| title = Zechariah: Prophet to a New Generation

| journal = The Instructor

| volume = 98

| date = February 1963

|type =Center insert

}}

• {{cite journal

| last = Rasmussen

| first = Ellis T.

| author-mask= ——

| title = Malachi: Prophet of Fulfillment

| journal = The Instructor

| volume = 98

| date = May 1963

|type =Center insert

}}

• {{cite journal

| last = Rasmussen

| first = Ellis T.

| author-mask= ——

| title = Zephaniah, Obadiah, and Micah: Prophets During Times of Crisis

| journal = The Instructor

| volume = 98

| date = July 1963

|type =Center insert

}}

• {{Cite journal

| last = Rasmussen

| first = Ellis T.

| author-mask= ——

| title = [Book review of] Doctrinal commentary on the Pearl of Great Price, by Hyrum L. Andrus

| journal = BYU Studies

| volume = 9

| issue = 1

| date = Autumn 1968

| pages = 111–15

| url = http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/u?/byustudies,2188

}}

• {{Cite journal

| last = Rasmussen

| first = Ellis T.

| author-mask= ——

|title = The New English Bible: The Old Testament

|journal = Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought

|volume = 5

|issue = 4

|date = Winter 1970

|pages = 94–102

| doi = 10.2307/45227709

| jstor = 45227709

| s2cid = 254398972

|doi-access= free

}}

• {{Cite journal

| last = Rasmussen

| first = Ellis T.

| author-mask= ——

| title = Judaism

| journal = Ensign

| date = March 1971

| page = 40

| url = https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/ensign/1971/03/judaism

}}

• {{Cite journal

| last = Rasmussen

| first = Ellis T.

| author-mask= ——

| title = Zoroastrianism

| journal = Ensign

| date = November 1971

| page = 32

| url = https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/ensign/1971/11/zoroastrianism

}}

• {{cite journal

| last = Rasmussen

| first = Ellis T.

| author-mask= ——

| title = Religion in Israel Today

| journal = Ensign

| date = May 1972

| page = 59

| url = https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/ensign/1972/05/religion-in-israel-today

}}

• {{cite journal

| last = Rasmussen

| first = Ellis T.

| author-mask= ——

| title = The Language of the Old Testament

| journal = Ensign

| date = February 1973

| page = 34

| url = https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/ensign/1973/02/the-language-of-the-old-testament

}}

• {{cite journal

| last = Rasmussen

| first = Ellis T.

| author-mask= ——

| title = The Unchanging Gospel of Two Testaments

| journal = Ensign

| date = October 1973

| page = 24

| url = https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/ensign/1973/10/the-unchanging-gospel-of-two-testaments

}}

• {{cite journal

| last = Rasmussen

| first = Ellis T.

| author-mask= ——

| title = In terms of strength and power and significance, was Israel ever a nation truly to be reckoned with by the major powers throughout the Old Testament?

| journal = Ensign

| date = October 1973

| page = 76

| url = https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/ensign/1973/10/i-have-a-question?lang=eng

}}

• {{cite journal

| last = Rasmussen

| first = Ellis T.

| author-mask= ——

| title = If Satan had never come to earth, would there still be evil?

| journal = New Era

| date = December 1974

| page = 13

| url = https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/new-era/1974/12/qa-questions-and-answers?lang=eng

}}

• {{Cite journal

| last = Rasmussen

| first = Ellis T.

| author-mask= ——

| title = What do we know of Jesus' use of the Hebrew scriptures?

| journal = Ensign

| date = January 1975

| page = 23

| url = https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/ensign/1975/01/i-have-a-question?lang=eng

}}

• {{Cite journal

| last = Rasmussen

| first = Ellis T.

| author-mask= ——

| title = In Honor of Sidney B. Sperry

| journal = Newsletter and Proceedings of the S.E.H.A.

| issue = 143

| publisher = Society for Early Historic Archaeology

| date = May 1979

| pages = 1–6

}}

• {{Cite journal

| last = Rasmussen

| first = Ellis T.

| author-mask= ——

| title = Why Does the Book of Moses End With Noah?

| journal = Ensign

| date = September 1980

| pages = 51–52

| url = https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/ensign/1980/09/i-have-a-question

}}

• {{Cite journal

| last = Rasmussen

| first = Ellis T.

| author-mask= ——

| title = What Were the False Ideologies, Values, and Practices that Tempted Israel During the Old Testament Period?

| journal = Ensign

| volume = 11

| issue = 12

| date = December 1981

| pages = 62–63

| url = https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/ensign/1981/12/i-have-a-question

}}

• {{Cite journal

| last = Rasmussen

| first = Ellis T.

| author-mask= ——

| title = Sidney B. Sperry: Student of the Book of Mormon

| journal = Ensign

| volume = 16

| issue = 6

| date = July 1986

| pages = 24–27

| url = https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/ensign/1986/07/sidney-b-sperry-student-of-the-book-of-mormon

}}

• {{Cite journal

| last = Rasmussen

| first = Ellis T.

| author-mask= ——

| title = What Are the Best Evidences to Support the Authenticity of the Book of Mormon?

| journal = Ensign

| volume = 17

| issue = 1

| date = January 1987

| pages = 53–55

| url = https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/ensign/1987/01/i-have-a-question

}}

• {{cite book

|last = Rasmussen

|first = Ellis T.

|author-mask = ——

|chapter = Abrahamic Covenant

|title = Encyclopedia of Mormonism

|editor = Daniel H. Ludlow

|editor-link = Daniel H. Ludlow

|publisher = Macmillan

|location = New York

|volume = 1

|pages = 9–10

|chapter-url = http://eom.byu.edu/index.php/Abrahamic_Covenant

|title-link = Encyclopedia of Mormonism

|access-date = 2010-01-12

|archive-date = 2010-01-09

|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100109173409/http://eom.byu.edu/index.php/Abrahamic_Covenant

|url-status = dead

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| last = Rasmussen

| first = Ellis T.

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| chapter = Deuteronomy

| title = Encyclopedia of Mormonism

| editor = Daniel H. Ludlow

| editor-link = Daniel H. Ludlow

| publisher = Macmillan

| location = New York

| volume = 1

| pages = 378–79

| chapter-url= http://eom.byu.edu/index.php/Deuteronomy

| title-link = Encyclopedia of Mormonism

}}

• {{cite book

| last = Rasmussen

| first = Ellis T.

| author-mask= ——

| chapter = Old Testament

| title = Encyclopedia of Mormonism

| editor = Daniel H. Ludlow

| editor-link = Daniel H. Ludlow

| publisher = Macmillan

| location = New York

| volume = 3

| pages = 1027–30

| chapter-url= http://eom.byu.edu/index.php/Old_Testament

| title-link = Encyclopedia of Mormonism

}}

• {{Cite journal

| last = Rasmussen

| first = Ellis T.

| author-mask= ——

| title = Sidney B. Sperry, As I Remember and Appreciate Him

| journal = Journal of Book of Mormon Studies

| volume = 4

| issue = 1

| date = Spring 1995

| pages = xxiv–xxvi

| doi = 10.2307/44758760

| jstor = 44758760

| s2cid = 165144843

| url = http://mi.byu.edu/publications/jbms/?vol=4&num=1&id=74

| url-access= subscription

}}

• {{cite news

| last = Rasmussen

| first = Ellis T.

| author-mask= ——

| title = Revisit Old Testament for New Treasures

| work = Church News

| publisher = Deseret News

| location = Salt Lake City, Utah

| date = January 3, 1998

| pages = 4, 7

| url = https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=p5oRAAAAIBAJ&pg=4964%2C855129

}}

• {{Cite thesis

| author = Rasmussen, Ellis T.

| title = Textual Parallels to the Doctrine and Covenants and Book of Commandments as Found in the Bible

| year = 1951

| type = Master's thesis

| publisher = Brigham Young University, Division of Religion

| location = Provo, Utah

| url = http://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/5059/

}}.

• {{Citation

| last = Rasmussen

| first = Ellis T.

| author-mask= ——

| title = Search the Scriptures

| year = 1954

| series = Leadership Week

| pages = 56

| publisher = Brigham Young University

| location = Provo, Utah

}}.

• {{Citation

| last = Rasmussen

| first = Ellis T.

| author-mask= ——

| title = Helping Children Understand the Articles of Faith

| year = 1956

| series = 33rd Annual Leadership Week

| publisher = Brigham Young University, Extension Division

| location = Provo, Utah

}}.

• {{Citation

| last = Rasmussen

| first = Ellis T.

| author-mask= ——

| chapter = Gospel Teachings from the Old Testament

| date = June 4–9, 1960

| title = BYU Leadership

| series = 37th Annual Leadership Week

| publisher = Brigham Young University

| location = Provo, Utah

| pages = 31–48

}}.

• {{Cite book

| last = Rasmussen

| first = Ellis T.

| author-mask= ——

| chapter = Contributions of the Pearl of Great Price to Understanding the Old Testament

| year = 1960

| title = Pearl of Great Price Conference

| pages = 28–36

| publisher = Brigham Young University

| location = Provo, Utah

}}

• {{Citation

| last = Rasmussen

| first = Ellis T.

| author-mask= ——

| title = Relationships of God and Man According to a Text and Targum of Deuteronomy

| year = 1967

| series = Doctoral dissertation

| publisher = Brigham Young University, Department of Graduate Studies in Religious Instruction

| location = Provo, Utah

}}.

• {{Cite book

| last = Rasmussen

| first = Ellis T.

| author-mask= ——

| chapter = Abraham the Prophet

| title = Pearl of Great Price Symposium, 22 November 1975

| year = 1975

| pages = 88–94

}}

• {{Cite book

| last = Rasmussen

| first = Ellis T.

| author-mask= ——

| chapter = The Abrahamic Covenant and Mission in the Old and New Testament

| title = Sidney B. Sperry Symposium

| publisher = BYU Press

| location = Provo, Utah

| year = 1978

| pages = 11–35

}}

• {{Cite book

| last = Rasmussen

| first = Ellis T.

| author-mask= ——

| chapter = The New LDS Edition of the King James Version of the Bible: Its Development and Significance

| title = Church Educational System Religious Educators' Symposium

| date = August 16–18, 1979

| pages = 27–30

}}

• {{Cite book

| last = Rasmussen

| first = Ellis T.

| author-mask= ——

| chapter = The Passover: The Event and Its Significance

| title = Church Educational System Religious Educators' Symposium

| date = August 16–18, 1979

| pages = 31–36

}}

• {{Cite book

| last = Rasmussen

| first = Ellis T.

| author-mask= ——

| chapter = Some Contributions of the Doctrine and Covenants to Our Understanding of the Bible

| title = The Seventh Annual Sidney B. Sperry Symposium: The Doctrine and Covenants

| year = 1979

| publisher = Religious Instruction, Brigham Young University, and Church Educational System

| location = Provo, Utah

| pages = 154–163

}}

• {{Citation

| last = Rasmussen

| first = Ellis T.

| author-mask= ——

| title = Follow Prophets' Lessons

| date = May 27, 1980

| series = Devotional speech

| publisher = Brigham Young University

| location = Provo, Utah

}}.

• {{Citation

| last = Rasmussen

| first = Ellis T.

| author-mask= ——

| chapter = The Prophets and the Mission

| title = Isaiah and the Prophets: Inspired Voices from the Old Testament

| editor = Monte S. Nyman

| editor-link = Monte S. Nyman

| publication-date = 1984

| date = March 19–20, 1982

| publisher = Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University

| location = Provo, Utah

| pages = 139–49

| chapter-url = http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/rsc/id/46557

| isbn = 0-88494-522-7

}}

• {{Cite book

| last = Rasmussen

| first = Ellis T.

| author-mask= ——

| chapter = A Tribute to Sidney B. Sperry

| title = Nurturing Faith Through the Book of Mormon

| series = The 24th Annual Sidney B. Sperry Symposium

| year = 1995

| pages = xi–xxxviii

| publisher = Deseret Book

| location = Salt Lake City, Utah

| isbn = 1-57345-159-2

}}

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