{"id":153188,"date":"2025-11-20T16:01:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T23:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=153188"},"modified":"2025-11-20T16:01:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T23:01:06","slug":"why-king-james-banned-the-ethiopian-bible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2025\/11\/20\/why-king-james-banned-the-ethiopian-bible\/","title":{"rendered":"Why King James Banned the Ethiopian Bible"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"container\" class=\"style-scope ytd-channel-name\">\n<h2 id=\"text-container\" class=\"style-scope ytd-channel-name\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><a class=\"yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string\" style=\"color: #0000ff;\" spellcheck=\"false\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@RisenAfrica\">Risen Africa<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Why did King James ban the Ethiopian Bible? What\u2019s inside Africa\u2019s oldest and most complete biblical text that the king didn\u2019t want you to read? In this video, we uncover the shocking truth behind one of history\u2019s most controversial editorial decisions. Discover how the Ethiopian Bible preserved ancient scriptures banned from the King James Version and what that tells us about power, empire, and erasure. We explore the lost books, forbidden knowledge, and the spiritual war over Africa\u2019s role in biblical history. Watch till the end for a jaw-dropping connection between colonial censorship and spiritual sovereignty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Why King James Banned the Ethiopian Bible\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qI1zk1oTgTY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Risen Africa Why did King James ban the Ethiopian Bible? What\u2019s inside Africa\u2019s oldest and most complete biblical text that the king didn\u2019t want you to read? In this video, we uncover the shocking truth behind one of history\u2019s most controversial editorial decisions. Discover how the Ethiopian Bible preserved ancient scriptures banned from the King [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153188"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":153189,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153188\/revisions\/153189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}