 Israel was a practitioner of the " hermeneutic style " of Latin , characterised by long , convoluted sentences and a predilection for rare words and neologisms . He probably influenced the scribe known to historians as " Æthelstan A " , an early exponent of the style in charters he drafted between 928 and 935 . Hermeneutic Latin was to become the dominant style of the English Benedictine reform movement of the later tenth century , and Israel may have been an early mentor of one of its leaders , Æthelwold , at Æthelstan 's court in the 930s . The Latin texts which Israel brought to Æthelstan 's court were influenced by Irish writers , and the historian Jane Stevenson sees them as contributing a Hiberno @-@ Latin element to the hermeneutic style in England . 
