Samaritans, early Christians in Jerusalem continued to participate in worship at the temple.87 The early Christians’ view of the temple was more extreme than Qumran, however, because they viewed the temple as a doomed institution and did not look forward to the restoration of a physical temple in Jerusalem.88 This is clearly the view of the author of Revelation.89 Bauckham argues that this view of the temple played a role in the marginalization of Christians from common Judaism in the years following AD 70.90