The Bible Blueprint: A Catholic's Guide to Understanding and Embracing God's Word

by Joe Paprocki, Doug Hall (Illustrator)

In The Bible Blueprint, best-selling author Joe Paprocki makes understanding the Bible not only easy for the person in the pew, but downright fun! Using witty cartoons, thought-provoking sidebars, and short quizzes to supplement his easy-to-grasp teachings on the Bible, Paprocki guides lay Catholics to a solid understanding of the stucture, organization, and purpose of God's Word.

Among numerous other topics, Paprocki covers the different genres of biblical writing, key figures in biblical history, and the methods Catholis rely on to interpret the Bible. As readers increase their understanding of the Bible, they will also increase their ability to find their way in Scripture: eight perforated Bible bookmarks are included.

Genres: Nonfiction, Catholic

147 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 2009

Reviews

[Alexis · Rating 4 out of 5]

Excellent primer for those new to "reading" the Bible. I teach for the Catholic Biblical School and many first year students need some if this very basic 'mapping' of the Bible.

Also, Paprocki does an excellent job in capturing the essence and usefulness of The Interpretation of the Bible from the Pontifical Biblical Commission. (This is a resource that we require students to read gin into their third or fourth year and is really critical in their scholarship, but some of it would be much better to be introduced earlier on in the four year program.)

[Claudia · Rating 4 out of 5]

Some good ideas regarding ways to approach setting up a Bible study group

[Jen · Rating 4 out of 5]

A great adult Catholic introduction to the Bible! Simple, helpful historical information, step by step, and has neat cartoons and notes to keep it light. It assumes you are a Catholic, and need some help reading the Bible :)

Give you a broad overview of the bible, and I love that he helps you navigate the bible right away. There are bookmarks you can cut out in the back. Each bookmark is for a division in the Bible (Pentateuch, History, Wisdom, Prophets, Gospel, Acts, Letter, Revelation) and the author makes bullet points on each bookmark that describe the main stories of that section.

The only drawback is that there's not as much mention of the beauty of the writings in the Bible, and what they means. But if you are someone who gets lost in the writing class jargon about the beauty of writing, this will help because this book will not bog you down in it.

[Emily · Rating 2 out of 5]

This is really only useful if you have NO idea how to read/study the Bible. As in, you don't know what 1 Cor. 13:1-5 means. If you've had any background in "how to read the Bible", or you went to Catholic school, this is going to be all old news to you.

[Angela9600 · Rating 3 out of 5]

Liked his other book more- probably because I am fairly familiar with the bible these days.

[Paula Frank · Rating 5 out of 5]

I bought the ebook version and it has helped me tremendously with understanding more how the Bible is layered for us to read and understand better.

[Karen · Rating 4 out of 5]

Interesting and entertaining while giving truths about the Bible and how to read and get information from it.

[J Crossley · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book is designed to help Catholics better understand the Bible and how to best approach the Bible.

[Bonnie · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great instruction and insight for a Catholic learning to read and interpret the Bible.