Ham?s Sin and Noah?s Curse and BLESSING UTTERANCES: A Critique of Current Views

The thesis of this book is threefold. First, contrary to the increasingly popular understanding that the nature of Ham’s offense was sexual, we argue that this offense was nonsexual, despite the presence of the phrase (“to see the nakedness of”) in Genesis 9:22. More specifically, Ham’s offense had less to do with seeing his father naked—the seeing was accidental. Rather, his fault lay with his choice to disclose to his brothers what he had seen as opposed to covering the nakedness of his f...