 The twelfth @-@ century copyist appears to have changed Dub Innse 's first person note to the third person . In a later passage , he interprets " Roman scholar , that is Israel " as meaning a Roman Jew ( Iudeus Romanus ) . This has been taken by some historians , including David Wasserstein , as showing that there was a Jewish scholar at Æthelstan 's court , but Lapidge argues that this interpretation was a misunderstanding by the copyist , and his view has been generally accepted by historians . Israel is thought to be Israel the Grammarian , described as a Roman scholar because of his time in the city , and the Gospel Game manuscript shows that he spent a period at Æthelstan 's court . A number of manuscripts associated with Israel , including two of the four known copies of his poem De arte metrica , were written in England . In Foot 's view : 
