In 2006, Bauckham published Jesus and the Eyewitnesses, described by many scholars (e.g. Ben Witherington III[2], Samuel Byrskog[3], Judith CS Redman [4], etc.) as a paradigm shift in Gospels study. In this book, Bauckham argues that the Synoptic Gospels are based "quite closely" on the testimony of eyewitnesses, while the Gospel of John is written by an eyewitness, against the current scholarly consensus that the Synoptic Gospels are closer to the eyewitnesses and John further removed.[5] Bauckham updated and expanded the book to respond to critics in a second edition, published in 2017.