Old part of bible was originally banned in foreign lands (8)
I believe the answer is:
overseas
'old part of bible was originally banned' is the definition.
I can't judge whether this definition defines the answer.
'foreign lands' is the wordplay.
'foreign' becomes 'oversea' (I've seen this before).
'lands' becomes 's' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'oversea'+'s'='OVERSEAS'
'in' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for overseas that I've seen before include "Exotic" , "In foreign parts" , "In a foreign country" , "abroad - with 12a" .)