Thanks, Peter, I appreciate your?help in answering my question. I wonder, though, whether Dives was intended to be read as a given name, or rather to be understood as an identifying description, which would then lean towards categorisation of the story as parable??
My bible dictionary gives the following explanation:
“Dives.( From the Latin for wealth), a term that became attached to the name of the rich man in the parable of Lazarus and the rich man (Luke 16: 19-31) because of its use in the Vulgate, a Latin translation of the Bible”.
