that the town which he called Medebena is mentioned also in Isaiah, referring to , where the Masoretic text has Madmenah as the name of the town. The Septuagint manuscripts uniformly give the name as Madebena. Scholars have taken the context of the mention of Madmenah in Isaiah 10:31 as indicating that it was a place whereby an army approached Jerusalem from the north. In that interpretation, its site is supposed to be Shu‘fat, 2 kilometres north of Mount Scopus. Michael Avi-Yonah rejects this interpretation of the passage of Isaiah. In the entry "Madmena" in the Encyclopaedia Judaica, he accepts Eusebius's identification of Menois with the Madmenah of Isaiah 10:31 (but not with the town mentioned in Joshua 15:31) and locates Menois near Nirim, southeast of Gaza. Speaking of "Madmenah (מדמנה; ΜΑΔΕΒΗΝΑ [ BאAQ ]), a supposed village of Benjamin, mentioned with Gebim, Is 10:31", the Encyclopaedia Biblica says: "Probably the name is corrupt (cp MADMEN), and we should read רמנה, Rimmonah." Location of Menois Menois is considered to have been situated some 20 kilometres south of Gaza and 9 kilometres east of Khan Yunis at a place described as Horvat Ma'on or Khirbat al-Ma'in near modern Nirim. Archaeological remains of a large settlement of the 4th century AD and later have been discovered there. Bishopric Menois was a Christian episcopal see and is included in the Catholic Church's list of titular sees. Extant records of some synods mention individual bishops of Menois: Zosimus at the Second Council of Ephesus in 449 and the Council of Chalcedon in 451 John at a 518 Synod of Jerusalem Stephanus at the 536 Synod of Jerusalem. References Madmannah Catholic titular sees in Asia