When hunting for food, Nephi and his brethren used bows and arrows, and slings and stones, rather than hunting weapons such as the sword, club, or javelin. Records show that early Hebrews used the same types of weapons as Nephi’s party. Furthermore, ancient Arab writers claimed that the only wood suitable for creating a bow was the nab wood, which grew solely in the region where Nephi broke his bow. As Hugh Nibley states, “How many factors must be correctly conceived and correlated to make the apparently simple story of Nephi’s bow ring true! The high mountain near the Red Sea at a considerable journey down the coast, the game on the peaks, hunting with a bow and sling, the finding of bow-wood viewed as something of a miracle by the party—what are the chances of reproducing such a situation by mere guesswork?” (See Echoes, 469–470).