You'd be correct Blacknad when you write: "Or two perspectives on the same event" were that the case.

Unfortunately ... for that point-of-view there weren't any Jews at the time of Hammurabi. There was no Torah. Abraham's great great great great grandfather had not yet been born.

Abraham's descendants wouldn't make it to Sumeria and hear the epic for more than 1,000 years after it was written. And when they did hear it they were illiterate and passed it down verbally for a very many generations.

DA Morgan