Travel was permitted and encouraged such times, I am sure that such stories were spread throughout the world. The notion that Babylon played such a central role as not only a place of knowledge and learning, would draw people from far away lands. It was also customary to indoctrinate a defeated , and allow them assimilate into your culture. The assyrians would spilt the defeated people into multiple locations in order to dilute the ethnicity or nationalism.Abraham was Chaldean, however is not listed as an author of any biblical books. The bible stats, Abraham was called out from the Chaldeans, because man had created their own laws, and had become very powerful(history indicates that
by the technological advances made by the Sumerians and Egyptians). Genesis 10 state Nimrod united to the people to build the tower of
Babel. I am not dismissing the validity or credibility of mythological stories.Judaism identifies good and evil. God and satan. The two are diametrically opposed. God being light and satan being darkness. The absence of God leaves man to his own devices which are towards sin. It did not even take one generation for men to failure. IMO, similarity of the stories are like counterfeit dollar bills, they may look the same, smell the same, and someone may unwittingly accept it for a real dollar, but in the end they are as worthless as the paper printed, regardless of how elaborate. We were all designed to worship, some have settled for less than the best. Satan is a worthless god, peddling worthless stories.The sad part is for many they are deceived , blinded by the lies, because the truth requires accountabilty for ones actions.