The common name of the manuscript comes from the first line, "Lineage of the Forefathers and the Prophets and the Righteous and the Tana’aim [sages]and the Amora’im [Amorites], May They Rest in Peace, in the Land of Israel and Outside the Land, May God Establish Their Merit for Us, Amen." The scroll includes a portion of
Psalm 137 ("If I forget thee, Jerusalem...") though rather than describing the city, it describes the Cave of the Patriarchs and
Rachel's Tomb. A copy written in Sefad in 1564 notes that while the locations described were generally correct, they were imprecise, and so the author corrected them where possible. Another notable copy, written in 1598 in
Casale Monferrato, Italy, includes
Gaza, which it describes as "the city of
Samson." Gaza is not one of the four traditional holy cities in Judaism (Jerusalem, Hebron, Tiberias, and Safed), nor is it a burial place of a notable Jewish figure. Scholars suggest that it may have been added to later manuscripts as a point of interest due to the fact that many pilgrims had to pass through Gaza during travel anyway. Since Samson is believed to have died in Gaza, its inclusion gave Jewish travelers a connection to the city on their way to more significant pilgrimage sites. ==References==