Scott E. Meyer began his exploration of the film, The Prince of Egypt, in August 1997, after a chance meeting with one of the film's religious consultants. However, his research about Moses started much earlier when, with a grant from the Cecil B. deMille Foundation, he was granted access to the late producer/director's voluminous archives. There he pored over materials and artifacts relating to the production of the classic film, The Ten Commandments. Using expertise gained from over twenty years in the arts, Jewish education and genealogy, he compiled his findings to create materials to help educators sort out fact from fiction.

Scott E. Meyer's theatrical training at Northwestern University has served him well in his performances on stage, television and film. In addition to his work as a fundraising researcher for his alma mater, Northwestern University, Mr. Meyer is a teacher and Department Head at Beth Tikvah Religious School in Hoffman Estates, Illinois, and is a member of the Coalition for the Advancement of Jewish Education.

Mr. Meyer is a past president of the Jewish Genealogical Society of Illinois and is a former director of the International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies. He has spoken throughout the United States and in Canada on the subject of tracing Jewish roots, and from 1982 until 1992 served as associate editor of Search: International Journal for Researchers of Jewish Genealogy. Mr. Meyer was also an editor of the Encyclopedia of Jewish Genealogy (1992) and a consulting editor for another popular reference work which helps the reader find and translate 19th century Polish vital records.

Scott E. Meyer can be reached via e-mail at se-meyer@northwestern.edu