The Forgotten Gospel: Reimagining Leviticus and the Story of Jesus
What if Leviticus matters?
- Available April 22, 2026 -
For many Christians, Leviticus is a book we avoid—strange, confusing, and seemingly irrelevant in light of Jesus. But what if that assumption is wrong?
When Leviticus disappears from our imagination, something else disappears with it—the larger story the Bible is telling. The result is a thinner gospel, a smaller vision of redemption, and a faith that’s disconnected from its own roots.
In The Forgotten Gospel, Brianna Tittel invites everyday believers to rediscover the story they’ve been missing.
With clarity, honesty, and deep respect for Scripture, she shows how Leviticus restores the story of the Messiah, makes sense of the apostles’ teaching, and reveals the enduring faithfulness of God to his promises. Far from obsolete, Leviticus is essential for understanding Jesus, the gospel, and what God is actually doing in the world.
The Forgotten Gospel will release on Amazon on April 22, 2026 in paperback and ebook. Also available through Ingram Sparks for wholesale and bulk ordering.
Early Praise for The Forgotten Gospel
“In The Forgotten Gospel Brianna Tittel has given us a personal and accessible entry point into the difficult issues that arise when thoughtful Christians read the entire Bible, especially the difficult parts (like Leviticus). You will find yourself pondering questions you didn't know existed and discover new depth and beauty in the story of Jesus as the Messiah of Israel. If you're looking for an honest and thorough account of how to read the Bible as a coherent whole centered on Jesus, you’ll find it here.”
— Tim Mackie | Co-Founder, BibleProject
“As Jewish followers of Jesus who spend our lives helping the Church reconnect with its biblical roots, we recognize how easily the gospel becomes detached from its original context. This book does the important work of restoring that connection. It does not add something new to the gospel. It recovers what was always there. Brianna has done the hard and necessary work of helping the Church relearn what it lost when it set aside Leviticus.
Rather than flattening the Torah into metaphor or dismissing it as obsolete, she allows Leviticus to speak as Scripture, as covenant, and as the framework Jesus Himself lived within.
In The Forgotten Gospel, Brianna illustrates the importance of an unbroken storyline, a continuity of Jewish history and salvation history as that storyline finds its fulfillment in Jesus. Her treatment of sacrifice, holiness, the Day of Atonement, and the ongoing story of Israel is thoughtful, biblically grounded, and refreshingly honest. This book does not diminish the work of Messiah.
It restores the story that makes His work intelligible and invites readers into a faith that is historically rooted, biblically faithful, and spiritually alive.”
— Ron & Matt Davis | Founders, The Jewish Road
“The Forgotten Gospel delivers top-shelf biblical scholarship in a manner accessible to even the newest follower of Jesus. Tittel convincingly shows that when Jesus claimed to fulfill the Law and the Prophets he wasn't setting them aside; he was embodying a life fully formed by them, and teaching his disciples to live lives that fully express them. If you want to cultivate a life shaped by every book of the Bible—including Leviticus—The Forgotten Gospel is the perfect place to start.”
— Paul Godbout | Associate Pastor, Capital Church, Salt Lake City
“When I opened The Forgotten Gospel, I expected the usual Christian attempt to explain Leviticus through a lens that ultimately dismisses it. What I found instead was something I rarely encounter: a Gentile believer who has done the hard, honest work of letting the text speak on its own terms.
Brianna Tittel sees what most Christians have been trained not to see. She sees that the prophets never envisioned a future without the temple, the priesthood, or the feasts. She sees that Paul never stopped being a Torah-observant Jew. She sees that the first believers did not abandon Levitical worship after the resurrection—they continued it, because the Messiah gave it its fullest meaning.
She sees that the new covenant does not cancel the old but fulfills God’s promise to write the Torah on Israel’s heart. And she says all of this not from a Messianic Jewish pulpit, but from within the very Evangelical world that most needs to hear it. That takes courage. It is far easier to preach a gospel that begins and ends with personal salvation than to confront the possibility that we have been reading the story with ourselves at the center. Brianna does not flinch from that confrontation. She traces the scriptural evidence with care, she handles the Hebrew text with respect, and she arrives at conclusions that will unsettle readers—not because they are novel, but because they are old. As old as Moses. As old as the covenant itself.
This book is not asking you to become Jewish. It is asking you to stop ignoring the Jewishness of the Messiah you claim to follow.”
— Sergio DeSoto | Author & Theologian
“I never thought I’d see the day a book like this is written and published, and am delighted to be proven wrong. With thoughtfulness and humility, Brianna invites us to wade into the self-disclosed revelation of the Holy and reminds us the whole Word reveals the Word who was, is, and will always be the same. The Forgotten Gospel illuminates the foundations of the covenantal commonwealth and is a worthy read for all Gentiles grateful to be grafted into its promises. I pray it ignites new wonder in the Body of Jesus.”
— Stephanie Quick | THE EMMAUS TABLE
“The Forgotten Gospel is a refreshing and well-written invitation to reconsider the importance of one of the most neglected books of Scripture. Through a holistic, messianic, and post-supersessionist lens, Brianna Tittel thoughtfully explores how Jesus and the earliest believers understood and lived out Leviticus. I applaud Tittel’s commitment to encouraging Christians to wrestle more deeply and carefully with the whole of Scripture.”
— David Wilber | Author, Born Again to a Living Hope