Editing Rohonc Codex (section)

=== 2010 to present ===
[[Benedek Láng]] summarized the previous attempts and the possible research directions in a 2010 article{{sfn|Láng|2010}} and in a 2011 book-sized monograph.{{sfn|Láng|2011}} He argued that the codex is not a hoax (as opposed to mainstream Hungarian academic opinion),{{Citation needed|date=November 2024}} but instead is a consciously encoded or enciphered text. It may be: a cipher, a shorthand system, or a [[Constructed language#Perfecting language|constructed language]]. Láng assessed these possibilities systematically in his publications with the help of historical analogies.

In 2010, [[Gábor Tokai]] published a series of three short articles in the Hungarian popular science weekly, {{lang|hu|Élet és Tudomány}}. Tokai tried to date the codex by finding historical analogies of the imagery of the drawings. Tokai could not rule out the possibility of a hoax, but he (like Locsmándi) insisted that whatever be the case, the text has regularities that strongly suggest a meaning.{{sfn|Tokai|2010}} Several months later Tokai also published two further short articles in which he started to give meaning to specific code chunks. He based his arguments mainly on character strings that appear in pictures (such as the [[INRI#The INRI and ΙΝΒΙ acronyms|INRI]] inscription on the cross). He claimed to have identified the codes of the [[four evangelists]] in biblical references, built up of an evangelist's name and a number, possibly some kind of [[Chapters and verses of the Bible|chapter number]]. Based on Gyürk's and Locsmándi's work he also showed that many of the four-digit numbers in the text are year numbers, using presumably a peculiar [[Anno Mundi]] [[Epoch (reference date)|epoch]].{{sfn|Tokai|2010}}{{sfn|Tokai|2010–2011}}

Simultaneous with, and independently from Tokai, [[Levente Zoltán Király]] made significant progress in describing some structural elements of the code. In 2011, he demonstrated a method for cutting down the text into sentences with a good probability. He identified a 7-page section split by numbered headings, with the whole section preceded by its table of contents. Like Tokai, Király also discovered the codes of the four evangelists, and in addition he provided a persuasive argument for a "chapter heading system" in the codex that contains biblical references. He also dealt with the overall structure of the codex, showing that the chapter structure is not present in the first fourth of the book, partly because that part contains the long, continuous narration of the [[Passion (Christianity)|passion of Jesus Christ]].{{sfn|Király|2011}}

In 2018, Tokai and Király published the paper ''Cracking the code of the Rohonc Codex.'' The paper claimed the writing was not a [[substitution cipher]], or an ancient alphabet, but is in fact a 'code system'.{{sfn|Király|Tokai|2018}} According to Tokai and Király, the code system does not indicate the inner structure of words.{{Clarify|reason=can this be explained in a more accessible way?|date=November 2024}} They claim that the codex contains the date {{nobr|1593 {{sc|CE}}}} as a probable reference to its writing. They also state that by character it is an ordinary [[Catholic]] reader or [[breviary]] of the time, mostly containing [[paraphrase]]s of New Testament texts (primarily from the Gospels), but also some [[non-canonical|non-Biblical]] material, like e.g. [[Seth]] returning to the gate of [[Paradise]], or prayers to the [[Virgin Mary]].{{Citation needed|date=November 2024}}