My first attempt at Greek transliteration.

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Can anyone identify this passage?

Apokaluptetai gar orge Theou ap ouranou epi pasan asebeian kai adikian anthropan ton ten aletheian en adikia katekhonton dioti to gnoston tou Theou phaneron estin en autois o gar Theos autois ephanerose ta gar aorata autou apo ktiseos kosmou tois poiemasi nooumena kathoratai e te aidios autou dunamis kai Theiotes eis to einai autous anapologeous.

Is that modern or ancient? I did know a bit of Ancient Greek when I studied classical history, but I've forgotten most of it now...

Can I just ask, what's with the obscure/classical/'dead' languages thing?

(Just curious, not having a go at you - I speak a few less common ones myself you see).

Koine Greek, from the 1st century AD.

I like the older languages because the older writings were written in them. As for modern languages, I know enough Spanish to converse in it and decipher, with some rapidity, written texts of Spanish. I'm trying to learn Latvian since some friends at church speak it. But otherwise I find languages that are more ancient more interesting.

By the way, "apo ktiseos kosmou" and "anapologeous" would
be key to determining this passage' location in the literature.

It is really interesting to compare the number systems of various languages, particularly between the numbers ten and twenty. Some languages have unique words for 11-19, but others simply will do 10+1, 10+2, ... or something like 20-2, ... et cetera.

I know a few phrases in Demotic Greek, but from that I only get the meaning of some of the roots (God, man, direct knowledge, etc) - nothing of the syntax or structure of the sentences.

Hey iamnotaparakeet: Let me know when you get to translating Etruscan(and no Im not being sarcastic).