all other books with similar titles or narratives have not been included into the bible, and belong to the new testament apocrypha. these acts narratives tend to be later, legendary accounts about the early apostles written in the 2nd and 3rd century ce. the books normally do not claim to be written by apostles, but are anonymous, and thus they are not considered pseudepigrapha and forgeries. unlike the canonical book of acts, they tend to focus on the exploits of individual apostles.