My first introduction into the complexity of The Bible and potential translations comes in the form of the Curse of Ham. I see that there are many interpretations of what exactly Ham did. What do you think Ham did?
It states clearly, in scripture, that after the flood, Noah got intoxicated and passed out naked. Ham went into his father's tent and saw him naked - he told his two brothers , who while not looking, covered their father up. Jewish apocrypha tells a story that Noah took a sprig of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, which was apparently a grape vine, and planted it first thing, after the flood, feeling he could control what Adam and Eve could not. Ham got to see what resulted. So Noah blew humanity's second chance to return to paradise.
BTW, Malachi Martin wrote the Encounter which is his analysis of Judaic, Islam, and Christian religions. I think it's out of print